Due to the ongoing concerns and restrictions due to the Covid-19 virus, our Winter sale will remain an Online Only event. If you would like to place absentee bids or bid via telephone, please contact us by email at RARauctions@gmail.com or call 765-412-7926.

Railroadiana sells in session 1 at 10AM EST

Railroad Art sells in session 2 at 7 PM EST

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Rail & Road is proud to present our Winter 2021 Railroad Art & Railroadiana Auction. This sale will featuring original works and prints by of America’s finest Railroad and Toy Train Artists including Walter L. Greene, David Tutwiler, Tony Fachet, Line’ Tutwiler, Robert L. Hunt, Angela Trotta Thomas, Eric Smith, C.L. Smith, Judith Anderson, Ed Wong-Ligda, Robert Skiba, and others to be announced in the coming weeks.

Below you will find additional information about the featured artists from this event.

Tony FachetFeatured Collection

Tony Fachet (1945-2008) was a well known painter of all things transportation. Whether it was trains, planes, or automobiles, Mr. Fachet was passionate about creating stunning visual works.

His work was featured at the International Railway Art Exhibition and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry among many other galleries and exhibitions over the span of his career.

Rail & Road is proud to further Tony’s legacy by making his work available through our events.

David TutwilerFeatured Artist

DAVID TUTWILER holds the honor of having his paintings hang in some of America’s most prestigious collections, both public and private. Including collections of the Pepsi Cola Co., the National Railway Historical Society, and the Sloan Collection of Valparaiso University. He began painting at the young age of fourteen, with a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. He went on to study and graduate from the American Academy of Art with an Associates Degree in Fine Art. David has participated in many National Exhibitions such as the Mystic Seaport International, the Oil Painters of America, and the Great American Artists exhibitions, Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to being one of America’s foremost painters of Steam Era Railroad subjects, his portfolio also includes significant works depicting traditional American landscapes and coastal subjects of the sea coasts and the Great Lakes. David maintains a studio on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, and a summer gallery in Rockport Mass. with his wife Line’, also an accomplished professional artist, and the mother of their six children.

Robert L. HuntFeatured Artist

Robert L Hunt is a professional oil painter who uses a master’s touch with light and an eloquent and rich portrayal of subjects to bring historical subjects of yesteryear to life in a very authentic way. He encompasses a range of subjects including the Woodland Indians of Colonial America, the American Civil War, and early American explorers and woodsmen. Some of this work hangs in the White House and other National Park Service displays.

Eric SmithFeatured Artist

Eric Smith is a Southern California native and career railroader. His passion for railroading has spilled over into his art. Eric has no formal training but honed his skills on theatre sets and model railroad backdrops before moving to acrylic paintings. His appreciation for the golden era of Southern California railroading inspires him to recreate the era that he missed. Eric strives to share the lore and romance of the Southern California railroads of that time, drawing from the stories of his co workers that lived it first hand, to the well documented history available thanks to the railfans of that era.

C. L. SmithFeatured Artist

From The Society of American Railway Artists;
“C.L. Smith was raised in a railway family with close ties to coal and iron mining. As a result, he is familiar with mainline steam and first generation diesels. He witnessed first-hand America’s heavy industries at work. His style of painting incorporates the great industrial illustrators Walter Greene and William H. Foster, and the subtlety of Terence Cuneo. Limited commissions are accepted.”
Mr. Smith can be reached via email at CLStransart@aol.com

Line' TutwilerFeatured Artist

Line’ Tutwiler has devoted her life to the love of family, faith and her interpretation of the beauty that surrounds and inspires her, especially the beautiful effects of light and shadow, to be found in America’s neighborhoods, landscapes and street scenes. She studied at the American Academy of Art, in Chicago, IL. Her career has spanned over 30 years and she has won both National and State awards, including, The National Historie Bronze Medal in the “Arts for the Parks”, Jackson WY. The Best in Traditional Landscape, “Hoosier Salon”, Indianapolis, IN, Best in Show, Chesterton Women’s Club, Chesterton, IN. Ammie B. Davis Memorial Award, Rockport, MA. Outstanding Landscape Small Subject, CILTI Indianapolis, IN and several more. Line’s paintings can be seen in several galleries throughout the country.

Judith AndersonFeatured Artist

From Judith Anderson’s Website

“Painting is a fourth career, after high school teaching, television journalism, and law practice.
I am largely self-taught, with help from class instructors at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, and plein air instruction at Nimrod Hall Arts Center in Bath Country, Virginia

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Featured Railroadiana

Select items from the CB&Q Company Archives

This auction will feature a number of incredibly scarce paper items from the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad.

This collection was assembled by a thirty-year employee of the Burlington Northern. Starting in the early 1960s in Chicago as a law clerk and then later as a corporate attorney for the Burlington the collector assembled an eclectic yet significant piece of American railroad history. In the mid-1970s the collector was transferred to the Denver Law office of the BN where the western flair of the collection was acquired. During the period of 1975-1980 the family traveled the Colorado Rockies following many of the old defunct Colorado Railroads to experience the rich history of railroading the Rocky Mountain region. In 1987, the Denver law offices were closed by the BN and many of these items would have been lost to history at that time but were saved by the collector from the garbage bin. Some of the items were assembled by BN staff archivists and some of the hand written notes remain. The entirety of this collection has been hidden in a box in a basement storage area since around 1990. We are excited that some of these historical pieces will come to life capturing the history of American Railroads for more to enjoy.

Highlights of these items include an 1889 Poole Brothers CB&Q Calendar featuring the 1889 Major League Baseball Schedule, original CB&Q sheet music, an 1885 Burlington Calendar, and a number of broadside advertising sheets, among other scare items.

This sale also features a mid size lock and key collection featuring many Midwestern railroads such as the Chicago & Northwestern, CB&Q, Milwaukee Road, and more.

We will also have a small group of Baltimore and Ohio Capitol Pattern china along with a pair of unique Belt Railway of Chicago builders photographs.