[955 AM Weds. 05 May 2010 - Fixed the formatting - PDN.]
Courtesy of greyhounds about a month ago, several of us were introduced to the ‘on-line’ availability of the above, which describes itself as follows - I’d say it leans more towards the business and economic side than the technical aspects:
“The Hagestad Sandhouse Gang is a railroad-oriented discussion group run by the Transportation Center at Northwestern University. The group meets monthly for 90 minutes to two hours with a speaker and then discussion of the presentation. The concept is to link active / semi-active rail practioners with students and academics at Northwestern and other schools. We currently have about 300 members and have been in existence for roughly five years.”
See - [link]http://transportation.northwestern.edu/sandhouse/[/link]
We were able to view the PowerPoint slides and listen to most of the remarks and questions. Better yet, there’s an on-line archive of past meetings, most of which can be viewed or listened to, at:
[LINK]http://transportation.northwestern.edu/sandhouse/past.html[/LINK]
Apologies for the format issues - I’ll edit/ fix it tomorrow sometime. But I wanted to get this post up before I forgot about it yet again . . .
- Paul North.
P.S. - A similar group is The Lexington Group in Transportation History, at -
[LINK]http://www.lexingtongroup.org/[/LINK]
It seems to be less formal, though perhaps more scholarly from what I’ve seen of some presentations. I’ll try to expand this in another post. - PDN.