Next Zoom: Mexico’s Railroads
Exclusive for members! Classic Mexico railroad photography from our archives
Fall issue of Railroad Heritage
Elrond Lawrence and the Center’s archives combine for a tour of Route 66 and railroad photography at age 100! Plus Cass Shay paintings, Seattle monorail art, and more.
Next Zoom: Stein in the Desert
Join us September 15th for a presentation of Richard Steinheimer’s desert photography.
New post: Northwest Synchronicity
The latest “Collection Tracking” blog connects former Milwaukee Road and Burlington Northern lines with recent images.
2026 Creative Photography Award Winners
147 photographers, 397 submissions. See the six winners, plus “Judges Also Liked” images.
Digital
collections
Explore digitized selections from our archive of nearly 700,000 images of railroading
Conversations in Colorado
CRP&A hosted a special one-day conference at the Colorado Railroad Museum on August 22. Thanks to all who joined us! See photos on Instagram & Facebook at @railphotoart
Conversations 2027 in Milwaukee
Conversations 2027 will be held in downtown Milwaukee during the weekend of May 21-23! Check back soon for details.
Latest news
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Zoom Program: Photographs of Mexico’s railroads and railroaders from the CRP&A archive
Exclusive for Center members on Tuesday, November 10: After mainline steam operations ended in the United States and Canada by 1960, many American railroad photographers traveled south to Mexico, where big steam continued to run for several more years. The Center’s collections currently contain more than 12,000 photographs of Mexican railroads in the 1960s by six…
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Zoom Program: A spooky evening with CRP&A and The Banshee Train
UPDATED: Thanks to the great crowd who attended our spooky October 13th program … they enjoyed author Odds Bodkin’s 1995 children’s book The Banshee Train with a reading by new Editorial Associate, Justin Franz. Bodkin’s supernatural railroad story was beautifully illustrated by renowned artist Ted Rose, whose work was highlighted during the show. The original artwork was donated…
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Collection Tracking: Northwest Synchronicity
Railroading has changed greatly in the Pacific Northwest over the past half century. A once-dense network of branch lines, mainly to gather lumber and grain, has been greatly retrenched, and even entire main lines have been abandoned. Most famous among the latter is the Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension…
What we do
Since 1997, the Center for Railroad Photography & Art has been committed to telling railroading’s stories through imagery: interpreting the past creatively, connecting it to the present while looking to the future. The Center, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit arts and education organization, achieves its mission through exhibitions, conferences, and publications that spring from its core commitment to collect, preserve, and then make widely available imagery that portrays the 200-year history of railroads.
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