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America’s transportation revolutions did not occur one at a time.

The railroad did not simply disappear when the automobile arrived. Railroads carried the steel, coal, timber, glass, rubber, machinery, and finished vehicles that helped make mass automobile production possible. Automobiles, in turn, changed where Americans could go, how they traveled, what they expected from transportation, and even how railroads thought about passenger service.

When Iron Met Rubber explores the moment when those two ages overlapped.

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At the center is Oakland, Maryland, a B&O railroad town in the Allegheny Mountains where trains, resort travel, automobile roads, industry, tourism, and the surrounding wilderness came together. In 1918 and again in 1921, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and their famous traveling companions passed through this landscape.

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When Iron Met Rubber is a joint project with acclaimed railroad artist Peter Lerro, Jr.

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The painting asks one additional question:

What if the leaders of these two transportation worlds had met there?

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Project Introduction and Details (click)

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Project Delivery:

Coming by the end of 2026 and is planned to begin shipping in time for Christmas.

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Color sketch of final painting below.

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Project Output: 

When Iron Met Rubber is being developed as both a museum-quality historical artwork and a companion narrative.

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The finished 24 × 16-inch museum-finish print captures one imagined moment at Oakland.

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The approximately 50-page companion story opens that moment outward, back to the beginnings of American railroading, through Ford's automobile revolution and the Vagabonds journeys, and into the documented Garrett County history surrounding the painting.

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The painting shows the moment.

The story explains why the moment matters

Charles Carroll of Carrollton: America’s First Entrepreneur reexamines one of early America’s most consequential figures through the intersecting forces of enterprise, land, politics, religion, influence, and infrastructure. It considers Carroll not only as a famous patriot and Declaration of Independence signer, but as a strategic entrepreneurial figure whose choices and relationships helped shape his era, including the early formation of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.​

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Project Backgrounder (click)

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Current Project Delivery:  Starting July 12, 2026, there are a series of live presentation events on Charles Carroll of Carrollton. 

 

Next Project Delivery:  Coming in 2027, a well researched book with recently discovered information, unpublished stories and a new point of view will be published and made available through wherever books are sold. Those details will be made available as we get closer to 2027.

The First 13 Miles of American Rail reexamines the 13-mile, world-changing stretch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Baltimore and Ellicott’s Mills where the railroad industry began to prove itself in practical terms. In a landscape already shaped by farming, mills, roads, river power, quarries, and trade, the B&O showed that rail transportation could be more than an experiment. This corridor brought together the conditions for economic growth and revealed the railroad’s promise as an engine of movement, commerce, and connection. The project explores the people, places, and infrastructure that made those first miles so consequential.

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Project Preview Backgrounder (click)​

Project delivery expected in Q1 2027.

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Expected Output:  A museum quality painting and prints to be made available online and through museum gift shops. A placeholder image is shown above. The final artwork will be different from the placeholder image below. Also planned is a book, presentations, live events, interpretive digital art, educational and companion materials. Those details will be made available as we get closer to the end of 2026.