About Me

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I'm a retired Information Technology System Engineer who specialized in messaging (e-mail); a webmaster, railfan, and aspiring amateur musician.

Unlike most railfans trains don't rule my life, they're just one of my many interests. Married in 2002, with a daughter. I have been interested in railroads since my youth.

Age: old enough to remember when red states meant Russia and China. And when BLM meant the Bureau of Land Management people. I'm a child of the 1950's but nothing like the stereotypical Boomer nor a Hippie.

Articles I have created

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Hawthorne station (New_York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad)

Milwaukee Road Depot in Iron Mountain, Michigan

United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey

Volunteer Railroaders Association

Wisconsin & Michigan Railway

Articles recently contributed to

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I contribute mostly to the rail history.

ALCO RS-3m

ALCO RS-11

AntiX

Cape May Seashore Lines

Damn_Small_Linux

EMD F7

Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad

Fluxbox

Hawthorne station (New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad)

Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad

Linux Lite

Menominee, Michigan

Milwaukee_and_Northern_Railway

MX Linux

Moodna Viaduct

National Railroad Museum

Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad

PCLinuxOS

Portage Lake Lift Bridge

Sakonnet River rail bridge

Schunemunk Mountain

Stiles Junction, Wisconsin

Volunteer Railroaders Association

Books I Own

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  • Foster, Gerald L. (1996). A field guide to trains of North America (First ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-70112-0.
  • Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1978). The second diesel spotter's guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-026-4. Including Industrial units!
  • Dorin, Patrick C. (1972). Chicago and North Western power. Burbank, CA: Superior Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87564-715-4.
  • Solomon, Brian (2000). Klancher, Lee (ed.). The American diesel locomotive. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7603-0666-4.
  • Glischinski, Steve (2007). Pernu, Dennis (ed.). Regional railroads of the Midwest. St. Paul, MN: Voyageur Press. ISBN 0-7603-2351-8.
  • Robert A. Liljestrand; David R. Sweetland (January 1, 1995). New Haven Diesel Locomotives Vol. 1: Switchers and Road-Switchers. Bobs Photo Railroad Books. ASIN B007ZTKDF6.