Gerald M. Best - photography and work with the R&LHS collecting equipment which eventually ended up in the California State RR Museum.
Going back to the really early days -
Hugh Boutell - photography
Fred Jukes - photography.
Monte Ballough - photography
Even earlier, from the narrow gauge frontier through the start of the organized enthusiast era in the 1930s are the Jackson family. W. H. Jackson's glass plates became iconic images. Then his son and grandson came to Colorado in the 1930s and early 1940s, taking action photographs and motion pictures, some with that newfangled Kodachrome.
Ellis D. Atwood was another one p[reserving equipment from the scrappers.
That's just a start.
Charlie
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