Not Just Archived. Protected for the Future. At Aurora, preservation is more than storage. Every image, tag, and record is part of a larger mission: to safeguard the visual history of rail transport across Germany and Europe. Our efforts are structured…
How Railways Shaped Europe: A Visual Timeline from the Archive
From political borders to everyday life, Europe as we know it today was forged not just in wars and treaties, but on iron rails. The railway wasn’t merely a way to move goods or people — it was a tool of…
Why Metadata Matters: The Invisible Backbone of Railway Archives
A photograph, by itself, is never the full story. You might see a locomotive framed perfectly in motion, a plume of smoke cutting through winter fog, or the glint of steel rails catching the morning light. But without context, that image…
How to Spot a Rare Railway Photograph (Even If You’re Not a Collector Yet)
A beginner’s guide to understanding scarcity, value, and historical weight Not all railway photographs are created equal. Some are mass-produced, printed in postcards by the thousands. Others are forgotten frames, capturing once-in-a-lifetime events or machines that vanished before most ever saw…
Behind the Lens: A Collector’s Journey Through East German Rail
A deep dive into one contributor’s 40-year archive of GDR-era train life.Tag: Collector Stories Vestibulum blandit libero at mauris condimentum scelerisque. In scelerisque in mauris ut malesuada. Nam sodales scelerisque ipsum sed vestibulum. Curabitur gravida orci purus, pellentesque efficitur metus ullamcorper…