"Southern Pacific #4194 'Tehachapi' Night Train 55 at Glendale Station," 1950

Richard Steinheimer, 1929-2011, is often called the Ansel Adams of Railroad Photography.

1950, Richard Steinheimer, "Southern Pacific #4194 'Tehachapi' Night Train 55 at Glendale Station," Glendale California, 1950.  Steinheimer was one of a number of highly dedicated train photographers who often shot at night from the 1950s through the 1980s.  Thanks to Los Angeles Relics.  

Steinheimer is the pre-eminent photographer of trains.  Enjoy.  

from Actuphoto,

Richard Steinheimer was born in Chicago in 1929. In 1939, when his family moved to Glendale, California, their house was located near the Southern Pacific main line. In 1945, he began photographing with a Kodak Brownie camera, and two years later began to work with a medium-format Speed Graphic camera, with which he created some of the most beautiful night photographs of railroads ever made. He attended San Francisco City College and from 1956 to 1962 worked as a photojournalist on staff of the Marin Independent Journal. In 1963, his book Backwoods Railroad of the West was published and eventually became one of the most collectible railroad books. His work has been publishedTrains Magazine, Railfan, Locomotive & Railway Preservation, Vintage Rail, and numerous books, including the recent publication of A Passion for Trains (W.W. Norton, 2005). He currently lives in Sacramento, California.

1951, Thistle, Utah.  Richard Steinheimer, the pre-eminent railroad photographer, died at 81 earlier this month.  He recorded the industry’s transition from steam to diesel, perched atop speeding trains to photograph their motion, and took “some of the most beautiful night photographs of railroads ever made.”  Photo: Steinheimer shot this early steam-era masterpiece in 1951 outside Thistle, Utah.  Thank you to the Los Angeles Times.

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1976, Barstow, CA.  The legendary Richard Steinheimer stood on the bridge in Barstow to lens Santa Fe trains back in 1976. Photo by Richard Steinheimer/Collection of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art.  Thanks to Railfan.