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 ...

His pictures of trains, railways and the people who work on them have hung in museums and art galleries. A 1967 photograph became an album cover for the Counting Crows.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Rail towers were narrow buildings, two stories tall and always next to the railroad tracks. Workers switched tracks, handed out train orders and performed other duties for the railroad. Slowly, as the ...

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 ...

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