J. Craig Thorpe (born 1948) is a modern American commercial and landscape artist. Much of his work depicts trains and the rail transport industry in the Western United States and Alaska. He has advocated greater use of rail transport, especially in contrast with automobiles, and has served as a director of the rail advocacy group All Aboard Washington.[1] Thorpe was commissioned to paint an image celebrating the 2006 centennial of King Street Station in Seattle, Washington.[2]