As a teenager in the late 1940s, Bob Malone combined his love of railroads with a keen eye and sense of history as he embarked on a life-long passion for photographing rail cars. As he devoted hours to traveling to tracks and waiting for the perfect moment, and countless hours in his dark room, Malone’s dual passions came to light. A recent gift to the Society’s library, the Malone Collection includes railroad images from Delaware and neighboring states taken between 1947 and the mid 1990s, along with views of jet airliners. Represented in the current library exhibit Tracks of Time: Photographs by Bob Malone is an extraordinary look at the cars, stations, and routes of railroad history in New Castle County. The display opened last month and will be on view until spring 2012. All are welcome to view the entire collection in the library.

Though the vast majority of Bob’s images are black and white, he donated a beautiful color image of a detail of a wheel which has been added to our historic reproductions program - click to view.
To see more reproductions, please click here.