WGRF History

The World's Greatest Rail Fans (WGRF) was formed by a group of railroad photographers in 1966 in order to have some respectability when seeking access to railroad yards and industrial mills to photograph the locomotives there. The group still gathers annually in Sep or Oct somewhere in the North America to photograph local trains and swap slides from their collection. At each gathering, permission is granted by a host railroad or industry for a group photo to be taken with a locomotive of interest. You can view past group photos below!

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We are still looking for group photos from the following years:

• 1966 - Cincinnati

• 1967 - Kansas City

• 1970 - Chicago

• 1974 - Chicago

• 1975 - St. Louis

• 1981 - Dallas-Ft. Worth

• 1991 - Kansas City

• 1998 - Portland

• 1999 - Pittsburgh

• 2000 - Gillette

• 2001 - Kansas City

• 2002 - Duluth

• 2006 - Buffalo

• 2009 - Pittsburgh

• 2011 - Ft. Worth

• 2012 - North Dakota

• 2013 - Harrisburg

• 2014 - St. Louis

• 2016 - San Antonio

• 2017 - Evansville

• 2018 - East Chicago

• 2019 - Washington, PA

For more information on WGRF, contact Jim Herold at jherold2@charter.net