Mark-
I noticed you referred to locomotive ownership in the EMD/GE thread in the first person.
Were you involved in short line ownership or operation? I recall you were a DS for the KCS…
Inquiring minds want to know…
LC
I found this on the web…
Mark Hemphill turned down a Chief Dispatcher’s job at the Kansas City Southern Railway to become Editor of Trains Magazine in September 2000. A native of Colorado, his interest in railroads dates to age 5, when he began accompanying his father on business trips into the Colorado mountains—this in the pre-tourist age when the Rio Grande operated a steam railroad just as it had in 1930, and coal smoke wafted from the depot chimney at Leadville.
Mark’s career has taken him throughout Alaska managing heavy construction; to California and back to Colorado repairing locomotives; to Urbana, Illinois, to teach writing at the University of Illinois; to Idaho to write science and engineering reports for the U.S. Department of Energy; and to Louisiana as a train dispatcher. In the meantime he earned an M.A. in History from the University of Illinois, and attended medical school for two years.
Tom-
Thanks for the info. Looks like Mark has been about as many places as I have. Almost all different. Vriety is the spice of life. Perhaps I should’ve called myself “Boomer”…
LC
He must be REALLY old!![;)][:D]
older then me?
Yes Kevin, older than you…
LOL!
LC