Richard Steinheimer, a master of railroad photography whose poetic images documented a half-century of trains and the landscape of the American West, died May 4 at his home in Sacramento. He was 81, ...

When Jim Shaughnessy began photographing the American railways, the transportation infrastructure was in a major time of change. In the 1950s and ’60s, diesel trains were replacing the steam ...

Andrew J. Russell (1829–1902) grew up in the northeast pursuing the life of an artist. As he progressed artistically, he received numerous commissions from political and railroad figures to paint ...

Cypress Swamp. Middle Mississippi, 2014 Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad by Jeanine Michna-Bales, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2017 Even in the ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Documentary photographer and digital montage artist Stephen Marc, nationally known for his book “Passage on the Underground Railroad,” will speak at the University at Buffalo on March ...

In the spring, Ehernberger submitted one of his photographs for a national competition by the Center for Railroad Photography and Art called the John E. Gruber Creative Photography Awards, and won ...

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 ...

When you come to live in Botetourt, you notice one thing longer-time residents take for granted: Lots of the retired folks here are retired from the railroad. They don't even have to say what railroad ...

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 ...