NWI-NRHS
Photographer of the Year 2023
(Click on any photo to enlarge.)
(Page updated 05.20.23)

Category A -- "Illinois & Adjacent States taken in 2022"

First Place

Robert Jordan

 

Amtrak in the snow
at Fort Madison, IA
2022
Second Place

Lance Wales 		CP At Belllvue Iowa
in the strseet
with autumn colors
2022
Third Place Tie

 Dan Fredrickson		 KCS Night Shot
over the Fox River
at Geneva
2022
Third Place Tie

 Mike Raia

SOO 1003 in Metra
at Western Avenue Yard
2022

Category B -- "Anytime Anyplace"
(Images recorded over many years and any locations)
First Place

Jerry Pyfer		 ICG splitting the signals at west end of Alworth, Illinois
Feb. 6, 1982
Second Place

Jerry Pyfer		 ICG crossing Van Buren Street,
with kids waving hello to engineer
Freeport, Illinois
Feb. 10, 1982
Third Place

Dan Fredrickson		 Polar Express
at Carland



Category C -- "Photos That Were Innovative"
(Photographers encouraged to come up with very creative photos, either by the manner in which the image was recorded or via dark room/computer program manipulation)
First Place

Jason Leverton		 Replacing the rails
on the Napoleon, Defiance & Western at Defiance, OH.
Second Place Tie

Terry Norton 		Passing Trains  
Second Place Tie

Richard Leonard

NYC Aco's

 
Second Place Tie

Mike Raia		 Zephyr at Chicago Union Station
Third Place Tie

Dan Frederickson

Cotton Belt in the Show
Third Place Tie

Gilbert Sebenste

Thawing out
in DeKalb

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Chapter address

North Western Illinois Chapter - NRHS
P.O. Box 5632
Rockford, IL 61125-0632