Elrond Lawrence

  photography & writing

Specializing in dynamic images of the Golden State and the American Southwest, with an emphasis on trains, landscapes and roadside America.

 

- LATEST NEWS -

 

Visit Elrond's new blog (online journal), "Outside is America," by clicking HERE.

 

Route 66 Railway, a new coffee table book about Route 66 and the Santa Fe Railway, is midway through the design stages and will be released in late summer 2008. Visit the official website at www.66rails.com.  The Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation is the publisher; their website can be found HERE.

 

Updated March 14, 2008.  If this page does not display a menu at left, click here.

 

Gallery Spotlight

Click on a thumbnail picture below to display a larger image.

  Holbrook Dinos.jpg (108118 bytes)  NewBNSF 7701@BlueCut.jpg (165086 bytes)

Cosnino signal bridge dusk2.jpg (145710 bytes)  ATSF2260 cab study.jpg (175721 bytes)    Wagon Wheel Motel.jpg (145622 bytes) 

All images ©2007 by Elrond Lawrence and may not be reproduced without permission.

Feature Story Links

"Route 66 Railway," a photo essay exploring the relationship between Route 66 and the Santa Fe/BNSF Railways, appeared in the March 2006 TRAINS Magazine. To order a back issue, click HERE.

"Field of Dreams," a cover story on the rise and fall of the railroads' lettuce business in California's Salinas Valley, appeared in the December 2004 TRAINS Magazine.  Click HERE to order a back issue.

Read my 2001 Trains.com photo story about Bay Area railroads from Oakland to Sacramento by clicking HERE.

Read recent articles in the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal by clicking on the following links:

"Field of Greens"

"Sales talk, sweet talk"

"Salinas' selling points"

"When the perks are gone"

"Former schoolteacher enjoys second career ... as an innkeeper"

 

Tel.  831.757.9100    Fax  501.647.2869    E-mail  elrondlawrence@surfbest.net