Obit for one of the last of the co-founders of the Strasburg RR, and (I believe) one of the last charter members of the NRHS.
See also Classic Trains, Summer 2005, article by Kurt Bell, pp. 64-73.
http://obits.lancasteronline.com/index.php?p=2502591
William M. Moedinger 21 July 1913 - 24 April 2010
Bill Moedinger liked trains: little trains, big trains, trolleys ’ anything that ran on rails. He took photographs of trains from the time he was old enough to hold a camera. Bill passed away on Saturday night in his 97th year leaving a photographic and life legacy interwoven with railroading.
Bill worked for his dad in the tombstone business until 1943 when he got a job as a Pullman conductor. Being compelled to serve his country and being physically unacceptable to the military or the railroads, he applied with the Pullman Company because their physical requirements deemed it only necessary to survive the interview in order to get a job. Thus began a twelve-year career that he rated as the best job in the world. Following a short stint at the John F. Weaver Insurance Company, Bill and his wife, Marian each purchased a share of Strasburg Rail Road stock and joined a merry band of rail enthusiasts spearheaded by Henry K. Long and Donald E. L. Hallock. The rest, as they say, is history and Bill was enthusiastically involved with the Strasburg Rail Road to the end. He served as the first marketing director for about a decade, was one of the first engineers on the Plymouth and steam, and then became president for seventeen years until his retirement in 1975. Bill and Marian opened the first tourist gift shop in the county at the Rail Road in 1961. Bill also authored ‘The Road to Paradise,’ a snapshot pictorial history of the Strasburg Rail Road through many editions. After retirement he could be seen almost daily along the line taking pictur