Edward H. Weber (1934-), a railroad enthusiast and historian, best known for his systematic photography of railroad stations and structures. Weber was born in West Point Pleasant, New Jersey in 1934. The family soon moved to Toms River, New Jersey, where he lived until about the age of ten. At that point, his father was transferred by AT&T to New York Ctiy, and the family moved to Chatham, New Jersey Edward Weber spent his professional life as an engineer in the steel industry. Like many small boys with developing technical interests in that period, he was drawn to watching the railroad trains that passed through his hometown from about the age of six. At Chatham, he could watch the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, which remained relatively prosperous and operated a large commuter business out of Hoboken with both steam and electric traction. Weber was also fortunate in that Madison, the next major stop up the line, was the home of Thomas T. Taber (1899-1975), a member of the first generation to develop quasi-amateur railroad history into a serious, organized hobby, and he became friends with Thomas T. Taber III (1929- ). These men and boys, largely from white-collar and professional families, were motivated to preserve evidence of those aspects of railroad operations and railroad-oriented life that they saw succumbing to rapid change and restructuring in the industry.

Weber began collecting and studying railroad timetables by about age ten, public timetables with their advertisements and colorful graphics, and the timetables issued to employees containing data on aspects of operation not seen by the general public. For a schoolboy in the pre-television age, they provided an extended geography lesson and vicarious travel experience, as well as an introductory education on the extent and structure of the North American railroad industry. Like many collectors, Weber seems to have been motivated to collect at least one timetable for each railroad, and he apparently began his collection with mailed requests to as many companies as he could think of for free samples. The foundation of the collection was apparently formed in this way between about 1946 and 1950. Many other timetables were picked up in the course of travels, and others were purchased from fellow hobbyists or solicited from friendly station agents and other employees. Timetable collecting eventually became a distinct hobby with its own association, newletters, dealers, and regional sales meetings.

Weber began photographing locomotives and trains in 1948 and acquired his own camera two years later. However, he would become widely known in the railroad enthusiast community for his extensive and systematic photo-documentation of railroad stations and other lineside structures, a process he began in his teens. He traveled to sites, first on foot, by bicycle or by train, and eventually by automobile. Weber began his work just as railroad passenger service entered a period of severe contraction under competition from other modes of transport, especially the private automobile, and when passenger stations, once the focal point of many communities, were being closed and demolished. Weber's photographs often became unique documents and have appeared in many books of railroad history and photography, and he was an early member of the Railroad Station Historical Society.

Weber's timetable collection was an important adjunct to his larger photographic projects, assisting him in identifying and traveling to specific sites and in providing what would now be called metadata for his individual photographs.

As of 2014, Edward H. Weber is living in retirement with his family in Kentucky.