This is an original watercolor painting by General Motors artist Harry Bockewitz showing the proposed color scheme for E7 locomotives that the manufacturer was hoping to sell to the railroad. The paint design is nearly identical to the F3 locomotives … Continue reading
This poster advertises the Indian Congress and other events taking place at the Fort Union site during the Columbia River Expedition. Posters like this one brought thousands of people from Montana and North Dakota to join expedition members in witnessing … Continue reading
There is no date on this poster, which is approximately 12.5 inches by 17 inches. However, among the pictures are one of Disneyland, proving that the poster is from 1955 or later. Click image to download a 1.3-MB PDF of … Continue reading
One of the ways Union Pacific used the Howard Fogg paintings it had commissioned for the Golden Spike Centennial in 1969 was to publish this set of suitable-for-framing prints on heavy paper. Each page is 18″ by 23″, and the … Continue reading
I’ve previously shown an invitation to participate in Great Northern’s 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition, but that came from another web site. Since then, I’ve acquired this one. It’s in pretty good shape, but the foil seal has been discolored … Continue reading
After Amtrak had taken over most American passenger trains, leaving the Southern Railway to operate the only private overnight train in America, the Southern’s menus, some of which I posted here a few months ago, offered passengers the opportunity to … Continue reading
I’ve found more Bern Hill passenger train posters in moderately large size. These include a couple that I’ve previously shown as covers of Railway Age. This Great Northern painting presciently views the locomotives from the perspective of someone sitting in … Continue reading
In addition to glamour trains such as the Super Chief, California Zephyr, and Empire Builder, Bern Hill’s paintings for General Motors included a number of freight trains. In 1951, when his paintings began to appear, only a few were of … Continue reading
If yesterday’s criticism of Leslie Ragan seemed harsh, it was because of my familiarity with posters by Bern Hill, an underrated artist who did 65 paintings for General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division. These paintings were all used as front-cover advertisements in … Continue reading
Ragan painted few trains (other than a few background images in his landscapes) for the New York Central before 1939. But his first famous painting, the iconic image of the streamlined Twentieth-Century Limited locomotive designed by Henry Dreyfus, also became … Continue reading
