Credentials
• Instigator and eventually co-founder of the American Civil War Rail Road Historical Society
• Group owner and lead moderator, of the ACWRRHS at [email protected] (previously on Yahoo groups)
• Photographer, presenter/clinician, and author on American Civil War railroad topics
• Produced and published calendars for the ACWRRHS
• Collector and preservationist of ACWRR artifacts
• Builder & owner of the HO-scale Delaware Central Rail Road and Navigation Company
• Co-builder and main troublemaker on Thom–Radice’s HO-scale “north branch” of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
• Publisher of a blog on the HO-scale DCRR & Navigation Company at delawarecentralrailroad.blogspot.com (Delaware Central Rail Road and Navigation Company: 2023)
• Grandfather had worked for Pittsburgh & West Virginia RR out of Avella, PA
• As a boy, my grandfather took me to look down at trains switching the yards far below in Holiday’s Cove, Weirton, WV
• Scale trains around Christmas tree and in attic as boy. Modeled HO-scale model buildings
• Collected Civil War trading cards while others collected baseball trading cards in the 1960s
• Worked on a track gang for C&NW in early 1970s
• Returned to hobby in late 1970s to operate trains around Christmas tree…. Some might say things got out of hand.
• Instigator and eventually co-founder of the American Civil War Rail Road Historical Society
• Group owner and lead moderator, of the ACWRRHS at [email protected] (previously on Yahoo groups)
• Photographer, presenter/clinician, and author on American Civil War railroad topics
• Produced and published calendars for the ACWRRHS
• Collector and preservationist of ACWRR artifacts
• Builder & owner of the HO-scale Delaware Central Rail Road and Navigation Company
• Co-builder and main troublemaker on Thom–Radice’s HO-scale “north branch” of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
• Publisher of a blog on the HO-scale DCRR & Navigation Company at delawarecentralrailroad.blogspot.com (Delaware Central Rail Road and Navigation Company: 2023)
Background
• Grandfather had worked for Pittsburgh & West Virginia RR out of Avella, PA
• As a boy, my grandfather took me to look down at trains switching the yards far below in Holiday’s Cove, Weirton, WV
• Scale trains around Christmas tree and in attic as boy. Modeled HO-scale model buildings
• Collected Civil War trading cards while others collected baseball trading cards in the 1960s
• Worked on a track gang for C&NW in early 1970s
• Returned to hobby in late 1970s to operate trains around Christmas tree…. Some might say things got out of hand.
