Traveling exhibitions

The Center prepares and circulates exhibitions of railroad photography and art to a wide range of venues all over the United States. Learn more about them here.

Current exhibitions

Wallace W. Abbey

A Life in Railroad Photography

After Promontory

150 Years of
Transcontinental Railroading
Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg

Beebe & Clegg

Their Enduring
Photographic Legacy

The Kalmbach
Art Collection

Pairing Words and Imagery

Milwaukee’s Beer Line

Railroads and the Brew City

Railroaders

Jack Delano’s
Homefront Photography

The Railroad and
the Art of Place

Photographs by David Kahler

Rails || Trails

Railroads Connect Us, Even
When They Are No Longer Here
Central Vermont Railway locomotive no. 707, White River Jct., Vermont, 1957. Photo by David Plowden.

Requiem for Steam

The Railroad Photographs
of David Plowden

Past exhibitions

Along the Line

1930s Railroad Photographs
by John Walker Barriger III

The Call of Trains

Railroad Photographs by
Jim Shaughnessy

Faces of Railroading

Railroads and the Making of
Madison and Dane County

Railroads and the American Industrial Landscape

Ted Rose Paintings
and Photographs

Representations
of Railroad Work

A series of exhibitions
about railroad workers

Railroads and Photography

150 Years of Great Images
Photograph by Joel Jensen

Steam: An Enduring Legacy

The Railroad Photographs
of Joel Jensen

Trains Around the World

Railroad Photographs
by Fred M. Springer
Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia, 1956

Trains that Passed in the Night

The Railroad Photographs
of O. Winston Link