NWI-NRHS

Photographer of the Year 2006

Category A -- "Midwest in 2005"

First Place

Clarke Renard
An eastbound BNSF train in the late afternoon reflecting off the Mississippi River just north of Prairie du Chien, WI from October of 2005.
Second Place

Andrew Nelson
BNSF's M-BRCNTW1-28 heads west along the Mississippi River out of Savanna, IL on July 28, 2005.
Third Place

Clarke Renard
An eastbound UP stack train heads under the coal chute at Dekalb, IL right at sunrise from October of 2005



Category B -- "Anytime, Anywhere Slide"

First Place

Rowland Smith
A westbound Denver & Rio Grande Western passenger train passing through the Royal Gorge in Colorado on July 18, 1955.
Second Place

Dr. Richard Leonard
Union Pacific turbine 54 rolls a freight outside of Laramie, WY from August of 1957.
Third Place (tie)

Rowland Smith
New York Central Hudson at Lafayette, IN from the spring of 1954.
Third Place (tie)

Randy Olson
The SP 4449 and SP&S 700 doublehead along the Columbia River for the 2005 National Railway Historical Society for the convention..



Category C -- "Anytime, Anywhere Print"

First Place

Clarke Renard
CN's M338 train blasts through the snow in Plato Center, IL in February of 2006.
Second Place

Lance Wales
An eastbound BNSF stack train holds at Steward, IL in October of 2005.
Third Place

Clarke Renard
A westbound UP train silhouettes the coal chute as an eastbound rolls under it in November of 2004.


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Rockford, IL 61125-0632