Howard Fogg (1917-1996) was a prolific painter of trains and railroads throughout the twentieth century. After serving as a pilot in World War II, he worked as the company artist for the American Locomotive Company, which began his nearly fifty-year-long career painting railroad imagery.
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917, Fogg graduated from Dartmouth College in 1938 with a degree in English Literature, and then attended the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts with the intention of becoming a cartoonist. After being drafted in 1941, Fogg served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Following the war, he began working for the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) as their company artist. He soon met travel writers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, partners in life and business. In 1947, Beebe and Clegg used Fogg’s painting for the cover of their book, Mixed Trains Daily. Over the course of the following decades, Fogg made a career of painting images of trains and railroads, both for railroad companies and private commissions, and he collaborated frequently with Beebe and Clegg. The works of Howard Fogg, Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg were all an integral part of railroad culture in the twentieth century.