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General Discussion / Re: Who Am I? or, Let's Introduce Ourselves

« on: June 12, 2020, 10:47:30 PM »

Michael,

Welcome aboard!  I think we already have a book like that - Two Feet to Tidewater, written by David L. Register and Robert Jones.  They used a number of newspaper resources in their research.  Available in the gift shop!

Two Feet to Tidewater certainly is all encompassing. I have the 2nd version I believe. How many pages does the latest version have? Certainly so much has occurred since 2002.

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General Discussion / Re: Who Am I? or, Let's Introduce Ourselves

« on: June 11, 2020, 11:26:19 PM »

Hello,
  I have not yet visited the RR but have been member of other tourist RR's and the WW&F beats them all in all departments. I am sure you all will agree with me on this. Recently I published one book about a former RR near where I grew up in Indiana and was later a part of the NYC system and abandoned in the late 60's and early 70's. It was a compilation of pictures, newspaper articles pertaining to that line and info that would be useful to model RR'ers amassed from valuation records and engineering reports. I would be interested in doing a book like that long term about the WW&F in the same format. Some wonderful book are available on Maine narrow gauge. I hope to visit soon but Louisiana is a long ways away but much closer than our last location in England (wife is active duty Air Force and I retired from the AF in 2015). We rode several narrow gauge RR's over in England, Wales and Germany.
Look forward to learning more about the RR.
Mike Hayes