Roger Puta was a prolific railroad photographer and railfan. He was born in 1944 and grew up in Chicago. He worked for railroads and lived in DC and San Francisco. He photographed trains and streetcars all across America, Canada, and Mexico. He and his partner ran a bus touring company. His photos are very distinct, with a more muted color pallete and pictures that sometimes almost appear painted. He took more than 5,000 photos of trains during his lifetime. He often goes unsung as a gay railroad photographer, and is not as recognized as he should be. He died in 1990 at age 46. Discussing his death at a young age was off limits. Puta died of AIDS, a disease that was purposely ignored by the Reagan administration. Puta deserved to live, and was taken too soon.

Please go view his works. I will be posting many more pictures to c/urbanism but I'm including some links here to his work.

On Wikipedia

On Flickr

More on Roger:

His longtime friend Marty Bernard (who uploaded the pictures) discussing Roger

The Twitter thread that inspired this post

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