The Railroad and the Art of Place

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By David Kahler *62

Published Feb. 12, 2018

Over six winters in the 1990s, David Kahler *62 and his wife traveled to the coalfields in West Virginia and Kentucky to photograph the trains there that capture the essence of the place. The result is The Railroad and the Art of Place, which contains nearly 100 of these images.

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