Richard Wolfe is an art, design, and cultural historian who has a PhD in Art History from the University of Auckland and a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts. He was Curator of Display at Auckland War Memorial Museum from 1977 to 1997, and has written or co-authored around 40 books covering aspects of New Zealand art, history, and popular culture. He has contributed over 50 articles to the quarterly Art New Zealand , as well as articles to other journals, and has curated or supported the development of multiple art exhibitions. Peter Alsop is a senior executive who has worked across the public and private sectors. He is a keen collector of New Zealand art, with particular interests in tourism publicity, hand-coloured photography, and mid-century New Zealand landscape paintings. He is the author and co-author of six previous books, including Promoting Prosperity, Hand-Coloured New Zealand, and Scenic Playground . Neill Atkinson is Chief Historian/Manager of Heritage Content at Manatu Taonga - Ministry for Culture and Heritage, where he is responsible for the Ministry's history and reference websites: Te Ara - Encyclopedia of NZ, Dictionary of NZ Biography, Te Tai Treaty Settlement Stories , 28th Maori Battalion, and NZ History . He is the author of six books and a number of articles and chapters, mostly on New Zealand political and transport history, including Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers under Sail and Steam (Te Papa Press, 2001) and Trainland: How Railways Made New Zealand (Random House, 2007).

Katherine Milburn is the ephemera collection curator at the Hocken Library, Dunedin, and has extensive knowledge of the Railways Studios' output.