The following Contributing Artists are in Alphabetic Order:
I’m a transportation engineer (Traffic and Highway
design, predominantly) by day and railroad “artiste” by night. I live
in the Philadelphia area, deep in Reading/PRR/PC/Conrail/CSX/NS territory.
I spent a couple of years in Southern Italy/Sicily and was exposed to the
Italian National Railway and some of their working steam. I spent a
few years in Provo, Utah, attending Brigham Young University and chasing the
Rio Grande Zephyr before Thistle disappeared beneath the waves.
My wife and I have raised/are raising six children (two
still home, the rest having flown the coop), the oldest two having produced
three grandsons interested in seeing “Grandolf’s” trains run in the basement.
The “artwork” started as a means of learning and practicing
CADD for work. Then I wanted to draw my model roster to test paint schemes
for the basement empire using felt-tip pens. Then I learned how to
color with the computer. Meanwhile, a rather large collection of drawings
was accumulating on my hard drive. I was eventually persuaded to create
a website to post my growing collection of what became a cheaper alternative
to compulsively collecting miscellaneous model locomotives that I thought
looked cool. Though I’ve had many express interest in having copies
of specific engines for themselves, and have done some design work for a
Z scale manufacturer, this is my first experience with a real live gallery.
I hope you enjoy what you see.
J. Craig Thorpe's interest in rail and art
dates from his formative years in Pittsburgh, PA. His grandfather regularly
took him on train and streetcar rides, and with his parents, he often lingered
to watch the nightly passage of the Baltimore and Ohio's famed Capitol Limited.
The imagery of those experiences shaped the foundation of a career.
I, Bob, have been photographing trains since
I was 10 years old. This hobby was shown to me by my father and I have gone
on from there. One thing my father taught me, that he did not do, was to
take photos of everything because it will not be there forever. Therefore,
I have a lot of roster type shots and good portrait material capturing the
memories of railroads over the past years to the modern day. 
Ken Barrett is an artist who wants to be a scientist.
His formal education included Liberal Arts and Biology at Fullerton College,
Fine Art sculpture and painting at Minneapolis Art Institute, Graphic Design
at the Art Institute in Los Angeles and Photography and Graphic Design at
California State University at Fullerton. He was a Photo Journalist in the
United States Navy and studied still and motion picture production at the
U.S. Navy School of Photography in Florida. 
As an artist, I enjoy creating these wood relief carvings
as well as my other forms of artistic expression. This particular series,
“Wooden Ironhorses” is one of my favorites. It captures my feelings about
the by-gone days of the great trains. This series is my tribute to those
glory days.
From the back porch of the family farm near
Hayden, Indiana, Carl watched steam trains in the 50s on the B & O mainline
between Cincinnati, OH, and St. Louis, MO. Carl learned much
about trains from the train stories told by his Father. Many stories
were from the summer of 1919 when his Father hopped the freights from Indiana
to the Kansas wheat fields to work the threshing circuit. 
I got into the world of trains growing up around
my father who at the time was also a fan. He has moved away from the railroading
world and I have stuck with it. I find that railroading is my Zen, the one
stability in life that will always be there for me no matter what the circumstances;
which is why I find myself so immersed in it every day. Growing up in the
1990's with mega-mergers and power shortages to fuel his passion; spilling
over into 2 specific areas of rail fanning: model railroading and photography.
