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“Snow Train” Algoma Central Ry. Of Canada by Russ Porter
worked at General Electric’s X-Ray Corpora- graphing the large boats that serviced the
tion which moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Great Lakes.
from Chicago, Illinois in 1947. Being able to In 1963 Porter purchased a former Elgin,
stay in the region allowed Porter to continue Joliet & Eastern Pullman (#40) car that he
watching, painting and photographing his fa- moved to his studio in Wisconsin Dells. A
vorite railroads: the North Shore Line, the long shed was built to protect the car and Por-
South Shore Line and the Milwaukee Road. ter’s studio was built over it. Here, after 59
Porter worked briefly as an associate editor years in the industry, Porter was able to dedi-
for Model Railroader magazine before spend- cate his full attention to what he loved best:
ing 15 years as the Midwest editor of Railroad painting and photographing trains and ships.
Model Craftsman magazine. Afterwards, he The EJ&E #40 was sold to a private collector
became the senior technical illustrator for Ken in the late 1990s.
Cook Publishing Company of Milwaukee. I would be remiss if I didn’t at least men-
The early 1960s proved to be an opportune tion the “Monday Night Slide Group what
time for him to pursue his interest in photogra- meets on Tuesdays and sometimes Wednes-
phy. Besides railroads, Porter’s other love days or Thursdays.” In the early days, Russ
was boats and he spent a lot of time photo- Porter and a group of fellow model railroad-
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