Some early pictures from “Conversations 2025”, the annual conference of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art, held May 16-18 at Milwaukee WI and Lake Forest IL. See many of our presenters and some of their programs. Official photos coming soon! Presenters included Dale Sanders (BC Rail), Dick Dorn (Donner snowfighting), Bon French (streamliners), Dennis Ziemienski, Molly Engelman, Kristen Decker, Joe Stroppel, James House, Andrew Nelson, Kit Courter, and the returning foursome of Brian Schmidt, Matt Heeren, John Ryan, and Sayre Kos. A few members of our collections team can also be seen in action: Heather Sonntag (showing Steinheimer SP) and Gil Taylor (showing Santa Fe steam by Stan Kistler. (fb)

At Selma, North Carolina, in June 1962, a boy on a bicycle watches as a Southern Railway local freight train waits for the passage of Atlantic Coast Line train no. 376, the Everglades. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, who passed away Friday at age 91. This image graces the cover of the Center's book, "The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb" (Lamb-01-083-04). (fb)