Stan Kistler's Santa Fe in Black & White

The Santa Fe Railway has a long history of superior passenger service, signature red and silver warbonnet-painted locomotives, massive steam engines and transcontinental franchise from Chicago to the Pacific Coast.  It touched the lives of generations of the shipping and traveling public and left behind a fondness that lingers today, even more than two decades after the railway itself has been lost to merger.  Many recorded the comings and goings of this great transportation system over the years, since the mid-1940s, but one photographer has stood out.

Stan Kistler captured the essence of what was the Santa Fe - the people, the operations, the equipment and facilities and the fleeting moments all captured on small celluloid frames coated with silver halide emulsion.  This publication is a tribute to Stan's seven decades of black and white photography.  It brings together a retrospective of Stan's work, all personally selected by him.