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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 ...

Courtesy photo / William Rau’s picture of the Horseshoe Curve will be featured in SAMA’s upcoming exhibit. From Mirror staff reports The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Altoona will host two ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Midwestern artist Jeanine Michna-Bales’ latest photo series, Through Darkness to Light, is the result of 14 years of research and 1,400 miles of travel along former routes of the Underground Railroad.

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 ...

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Train track photography has become a dangerous trend. Though it's not illegal, shooting on private railroad tracks is. Brian K. Smith, a Cleveland photographer says "now it’s everybody you can have a ...