Looking for transportation stock photography? You've come to the right place. Ian and his wife, Lee Clark, have a large collection of railroad, trucking and shipping images; and a smaller collection of travel and scenic images. Locations include most of the United States and eastern Canada. Images from the Far East include Hebei, Liaoning and Shaanxi Provinces of China and the Nei Mongol Autonomous Region (Inner Mongolia) of China. Most major operating railroads in the United States, and most modern locomotives and equipment are included. Images include a large number of operating steam locomotives, with freight trains and in excursion service.
Ian has about 50,000 images of railroads, ships, trucks, ports, terminals and miscellaneous transportation images. Most of the images are 35mm slides, with a few black & white negatives and a small number of 4x5 transparencies & negatives. Newer images are digital, using a Canon EOS 5D (12.8 megapixels). The majority of the images are of railroads - freight & passenger including most major railroads currently operating and most models of modern locomotives, intermodal equipment, freight cars and passenger cars. Ian's hobby is tracking down the world's last operating steam locomotives, images include a large number of operating steam locomotives, with freight trains and in excursion service. The image at right is from the JiTong Railway in Yamenmiao, in the Nei Mongol Autonomous Region China -- the last all steam-powered railroad in the world.
Ian & Lee recently escaped New York and took over the Clark Family Home in West Newbury, VT. We're rapidly building our collection of Vermont and New Hampshire images, with the goal of getting images from all 251 of Vermont's towns & gores, of all 106 covered bridges, of the 51 Vermont State Parks, of the 19 Vermont Historic Sites and of Vermont's 223 mountains by 2008. We're also focusing on Vermont's 'traditional' industries; agriculture, marble quarrying& finishing, lumbering & milling and tourism. We're up to about 20,000 images (mostly digital, some 35mm slides) of the area in all five of Vermont's seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter & mud).
We're looking for an agent that will aggressively -- and profitably -- market our images. We respect the vital role a good agent has in our business and expect to pay them fairly for their work. But, we'll expect our agent to regularly, continuously, really, consistently, commonly, ordinarily and routinely make an effort to sell our images. That requires more expertise than merely posting images on a web site. Our experience is with rights managed sales, but we'll consider royalty free sales if you can show us that it can be profitable. Ideally, we'd love to find one agency with sufficient expertise to market all our images. But, we recognize that customers looking for transportation images are likely to be very different than those looking for travel images and we may need to work with more than one agency to get the best fit for our images.
If you are interested in prints of any of these images, please email for details.
Railfans: You're free to enjoy the images on the site. Hopefully you'll find shots of your favorite engine or location. But, please do not steal the images. Just because they are on the web does not mean they're free to take. We enjoy helping railroad historical societies and equipment restoration groups. If your group needs photos, please email, and we'll see what we can to help.