Hi everyone! Since Kalmbach often partners with the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, I wanted to let you know about the upcoming conference on diesel locomotives to be held on April 29 at College Station, Texas. There is an impressive line-up of speakers, including several authors and photographers whose bylines have graced the pages of Model Railroader and Trains over the years. See below for details.
–Matt Van Hattem
Senior editor, TRAINS Magazine
Registration is open for “One Hundred Years: The Diesel Locomotive in American Railroading” at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, on Saturday, April 29, 2006.
The one-day conference, with a unique visual orientation, is being presented by the Center for Railroad Photography & Art (www.railphoto-art.org) and the Bush library. Colorful stories, advertising art, and paint schemes—plus significant unpublished information about development and technology—make this a memorable day for historians and enthusiasts alike.
All sessions except for the keynote address are in the theater at the Bush Library.
The cost is $85 per person or $75 per person for members of the Center.
The keynote banquet and address will be held at the Brazos Valley Cotton Exchange next to the conference hotel.
The fee includes the conference, admission to "Trains: Tracks of the Iron Horse,” a BBQ lunch, and a banquet dinner of steak or shrimp catered by Doe’s Eat Place.
A registration form is at bushlibrary.tamu.edu/trains/conference.php.
For information, please call Robert Holzweiss at 979-691-4074 or e-mail him at Robert.Holzweiss@nara.gov.
Speakers are:
–John Gruber, president of the Center, "The First Diesel and Other Stories”;
–John P. Hankey, independent scholar, historian, and railroader, “The Perils of Pioneering: Early Diesels on the B&O Railroad”;
–Jim McClellan, retired Senior Vice-President fo