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Tom Fawell: Electro Motive Division promotional artist

By Angela Cotey | April 24, 2009

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


Meet the railroad artist who created EMD ads in the 1960s and 70s

Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP38-2
Tom Fawell’s painting depicts Illinois Cental Gulf GP38-2 No. 9600 on a low timber trestle.
Artist Tom Fawell painted more than 100 promotional drawings for Electro-Motive Division. An article on his work, “The Bold Style of Tom Fawell,” appeared in Spring 2008 Classic Trains. Download it now in its entirety!
See the June 2009 issue of Trains, our shortline and regional special, for what’s fueling the trend to buy big diesels and another commissioned painting by Tom Fawell.
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