March 2026 – Heart for Railroad Images & Art

Highlights embrace:

• Five Months of Freedom: Russ Sperry packed up his life and spent 5 months on the street chasing—and finally volunteering for—the American Freedom Train in late 1975 and early 1976. He handed away final fall, however not earlier than donating his medium-format pictures of that journey to us. Join Russ on the good journey of his lifetime, photographing and driving behind (and aboard) Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4449 and Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 610.
• Travels with Don: Legendary photographer Victor Hand seems again on sixty-seven years of friendship and pictures with Don Phillips — a widely known Washington Post journalist who specialised in transportation, a longtime Trains columnist, and Victor’s greatest pal. Read about their railfan adventures chasing steam-powered trains (plus diesels and electrics) throughout North America and abroad, all illustrated by the good pictures of Victor Hand.
• Railroads and the Art of Place: In a shocking picture essay, Eric Williams takes us to New York’s Hudson Highlands, the place the Hudson River cuts although the Appalachian Mountains. Eric has explored the Highlands of New York’s Hudson River Valley and the trains of CSX, Metro-North, and Amtrak throughout seasons and years, deepening his relationship to the place and his photographic protection with every successive journey.
• Illinois Central 2516: When CRP&A member Karl Sakas bought a 1972 Howard Fogg watercolor of an IC 4-8-2, he additionally obtained an surprising treasure of correspondence between the famed artist and the railfan/railroader couple who commissioned the portray.
• People: CRP&A board member Michael Schmidt displays how his dad and mom inspired his and his brothers’ early love of railroads, ultimately main Michael to pursue rail pictures and artwork amassing … and to cross alongside his love of railroads and pictures to his son.

Plus a collections processing replace and gallery, an honor roll of our 2025 donors, new exhibitions celebrating Traqueros, information, dispatches, and extra. If you’re not a member, be a part of in the present day and get 4 points a yr.