Bloomsburg-based artist Oren B. Helbok is seen in a portrait by George Hiotis. Helbok’s railroad photography is featured in ‘The Ties That Bind: Railroading in NEPA,’ an exhibit that opens this week ...

Wallace Abbey captured images of trains and how railroads played a role in shaping large cities for decades, beginning in the 1940s. And in doing that, the late photographer chronicled not just how ...

Richard Steinheimer was called "the Ansel Adams of railroad photography" because of his virtuoso technique bringing art and innovation to documenting America's railroad heritage. At the same time, he ...

The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (R&LHS) has selected the Center for Railroad Photography and Art of Madison, Wis., for the 2022 William D. Middleton Research Fellowship, and independent ...

Torkel Korling, King Daniel Ganaway and Arthur Adolph Presler don’t have the same name recognition as O. Winston Link, the photographer famous worldwide for his powerful pictures of Norfolk & Western ...

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SAN LORENZO — When Bob Searle rode his first rail train as a young boy, he snuck out of his berth to see the view from the back platform. The adventure was short-lived when the conductor found him and ...

Historically speaking, did you know that: Passaic Textile Strike: The 1926 strike in Passaic’s textile mills was the first major walkout directed by the Communist party, working with the American ...

Almost everyone learned about the Underground Railroad in grade school—a story integral to the history of the United States—but often reduced to just that, a story, a legend that through time we have ...

Back in the 1800s, thousands of slaves fled the south for Canada and the free states in the north by traveling through the Underground Railroad at night. This much we know from studying history, but ...

Artist Tad Kline has been on both sides of the track, in the most literal sense of the phrase. In the 1970s, Kline worked as a brakeman on the Colorado and Southern Railroad Road (now the BNSF), ...