I would like to thank the persons whose names are listed below for the information which they sent me for this railroad section.Argentina
- Librarian, Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación, Buenos Aires
- Roberto Yommi, Resident of Buenos Aires
Australia
- Greg Lunney, Dorrigo Steam Railway and Museum, Dorrigo, NSW
Belgium
- Sabine Griffel, Information Officer at the Belgian Tourist Office, New York, U.S.A.
Brazil
- Angela Cardoso Guedes, Press Advisor, National Museum of History, Rio de Janeiro
Canada
- S. Campbell, Curator, Argyle Prairie Museum, Argyle, MB
- Denise Kirk, Local History Librarian, Brantford Public Library, Brantford, ON
Denmark
- Jens Boetcher, Resident of Roedovre
- Thomas Nørgaard Olesen, Secretary, The Danish Railway Club (URL down)
- Vibeke Petersen, Librarian, Public Library, Aarhus
Estonia
- Anneli Jaarma, Tourism Department, Haapsalu
- Kalle Piirküla, Resident of Hiiumaa
- Anne Pilli, Tourism Department, Tallinn
Finland
- Risto Hurmalainen, Resident of Helsinki
- Matti Bergström, Resident of Hyvinkää
France
- Pascal Berger, Webmaster, www.ajecta.org, Longueville
Hungary
- Maria Korasz, Librarian, Somogyi Memorial Library, Szeged
India
- Rajesh Agrawal, Director, National Rail Museum, New Delhi
Latvia
- Mike Johnson, Patricia Ltd., Riga Tourism, Riga
Lithuania
- Rita Navalinskiene, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism, Vilnius
Malaysia
- S. Sivanesan, Train Manager, North Borneo Railway, Sabah
Netherlands
- Willem Boorsma, Het Nationaal Modelspoor Museum, Kerkgracht
- Richard Drexhage, Resident of Valkenburg ZH
- Marco van Uden, Railfan contact, Amersfoort
Poland
- Jakub Halor, Member of Management, Fundacja Wieku Pary, Siemianowice, Upper Silesia
- Jacek Wesolowski, Resident of Lodz
Romania
- Misu-Jan Manolescu, Director, International Relations Department, University of Oradea
Russia
- Alexander Kondakov, Editor, E-magazine Semafore, Moscow
- Aleksandr Vasyutin, Deacon, St. Mitrophan of Voronezh Parish, Moscow
- Sergey Boltenko, Transsib Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
Slovakia
- Member at Slovakia Culture, Government of Slovakia, Bratislava
Slovenia
- Dusan Galez, Resident of Ljubjana
South Africa
- Cecilia M Blight, Deputy Cory Librarian, Cecil Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Sweden
- Jason Morales, Resident of Skara
- Kurt Möller, East Södermanland Railway, Mariefred
- Bernt Schechinger, Webmaster of a national railroad museums page and a Nordic trains page, Göteborg
Switzerland
- Laurent Stalder, Webmaster of a trains site, Vevey
Turkey
- Ebru Erdem, Turkish graduate student at Stanford University, California, USA
United Kingdom
- Member, East Anglia Railway Museum, Chappel
United States
- Jim Baggett, Head, Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL
- Christina M. Coxe, Librarian, Local History and Genealogy Dept., Mobile Public Library, Mobile, AL
- Steve Whisel, Curator Arizona Railway Museum, Chandler, AZ
- Member, Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Brian Anderson, Resident of Pittsburg, CA
- William Thomas, Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, CO
- Bruce Hanson, Reference Librarian, Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
- Jim Kroll, Manager, Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
- Robert Wilfley, Controller, Pueblo Railway Museum, Pueblo, CO
- Al Galanty, Connecticut Eastern Chapter NRHS, Willimantic, CT
- Sam Boldrick, Florida Collection, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
- Phil Cross, President and Historian, Central Florida Chapter NRHS, Orlando, FL
- A. Chapman, Librarian, Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative’s Electronic Reference and Information Center, Tampa, FL
- Joe Oates, Editor of Lines South, publication of ACL and SAL Historical Society, Valrico, FL
- Reference Dept., Washington Memorial Library, Macon, GA
- Roger Miller, Resident of Freeport, IL
- Curtis Mann, Sangamon Valley Collection, Lincoln Public Library, Springfield, IL
- Deb Ehret, Reference Services, Elkhart Public Library, Elkhart, IN
- Linda Chapman, Reference Librarian, Readers’ Services Department, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN
- Suzanne Hahn, Director, Reference Services, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN
- Millicent Jackson, Lawrence Library, Indianapolis Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, IN
- George Berghoff, NKPHTS Information Director and resident of Indiana
- Lynn Friesner, Council Bluffs Public Library, Council Bluffs, IA
- Richard Warner, Historical Society of Pottawattamie County, Council Bluffs, IA
- Rosie Springer, Library Associate, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, IA
- David Matthew Wilkins, Kentucky Railway Museum, Bardstown, KY
- Michael M. Palmieri, Webmaster of The Louisiana Rail Site, New Orleans, LA
- George Livingston, Local and Family History Librarian, Willard Public Library, Battle Creek, Battle Creek, MI
- Librarian, Flint Public Library, Flint, MI
- Catherine A. Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, Kalamazoo, MI
- Julie Levang, Reference and Information, Duluth Public Library, Duluth, MN
- Reference Librarian, Eudora Welty Library, Jackson, MS
- Jacqueline Lewin, Head of Research, St. Joseph Museums, St. Joseph, MO
- Jason D Stratman, Library Assistant-Reference, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
- Member, Convention and Visitors Center, St. Louis MO
- Bob Henderson, President, Pacific Junction Railway Club, Havre, MT
- Russell Ford, Volunteer information specialist at “Visit Charlotte”, Charlotte, NC
- Jackie Jacoby, Call Center Supervisor, Charlotte Convention and Visitors Bureau, Charlotte, NC
- Peter Jorgensen, Reference Librarian, Lincoln City Libraries, Lincoln, NE
- Deb Wiens, Convention and Visitors Center, Omaha, NE
- Bob Wilhelm, former resident of Omaha, NE
- Member, Western Heritage Museum, Omaha, NE
- Cynthia T. Harris, Librarian Manager, New Jersey Room, Jersey City Free Public Library, Jersey City, NJ
- Librarian, New Jersey Information Center, Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
- Richard Haskell, Resident of Alamogordo, NM
- David Schneider, Special Collections Library, Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library Systemy, Albuquerque, NM
- Scott M. P. Hawbaker, Webmaster and Steam Locomotive Mechanic, Western New York Railway Historical Society, Buffalo, NY
- Reference Librarian, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY
- Local History and Genealogy Division, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, Rochester, NY
- Dan Smith, Local History/Genealogy, Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NY
- Wayne Drummond, President, New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, West Babylon, NY
- Joanne, Special Collections Librarian. Akron-Summit County Public Library. Akron, OH
- Jim Hunter, Library Director, Dispatch, Columbus, OH
- Carole Medlar, Local History Librarian, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Dayton, OH
- Mark J. Camp, Railroad Station Historical Society, Toledo, OH
- John Fryar, Webmaster, trustee, and life member of the Nickel Plate Road Historical and Technical Society, Westerville, OH
- Larry Johnson, Reference Librarian, Downtown Library, Metropolitan Library System, Oklahoma City, OK
- Ellen Cummings, Reference Librarian, Tulsa City-County Library, Tulsa, OK
- Scott Daniels, Reference Librarian, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
- Teresa Johnson, Independence Visitor Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Cindy Ulrich, Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA
- Betty Fitzgerald, Reference Services, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI
- Ed Monson, Minnehaha County Historical Society, Sioux Falls, SD
- May Langmann, Local History and Genealogy Dept., Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, Chattanooga, TN
- Carol Kaplan, Nashville Room, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
- Jerry Michels, Amarillo Railroad Museum. Amarillo, TX
- Sue Soy, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Austin, TX
- Kay Bost, Curator of Manuscripts/SMU Archives/Photographs, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
- Ron Dawson, Railroad and Transport Museum of El Paso, El Paso, TX
- David N. Currey, Resident of Houston, TX
- Howard Laker, Historian, Gulf Coast Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Houston, TX
- Lee Witten, Archivist, Union Station Museum, Ogden, UT
- Stuart Metz, Librarian, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT
- Liz Triplett, Literature and History Department, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, VA
- Charles V. Mutschler, Archivist, John F. Kennedy Library, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
- Nancy Compau, Northwest Room, Spokane Public Library, Spokane, WA
- Jeff Cunningham, President, Tacoma Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
- Bob Lettenberger, Education Director. National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, WI
- Brian A. Morgan Resident of Richland Center, WI, formerly of Chicago, IL, and former employee of the Union Pacific Railway
- Geraldine Strey, Reference Librarian, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
- Don Ginter, Curator, Mid-Continent Railway Museum, North Freedom, WI
- Elizabeth Fraser, Reference Librarian, Kanawha County Public Library, Charleston, WV
- Robert Emery
Venezuela
- Luis Enrique Lopez Gomez, Biblioteca Central, Dpto. Recuperacion de Informacion, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas
Translators
I would like to thank the following persons for the translation of the introduction page of this railroad section.
- Afrikaans: Rina Goosen, Inter-Library Loans Librarian, Cecil Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Republic of South Africa
- Dansk: Thomas Nørgaard Olesen, Resident of Frederiksværk, Danmark
- Deutsch: Timo Cernohorsky, Resident of Crailsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- Eesti: Anneli Jaarma, Haapsalu Tourism, Haapsalu, Estonia
- Español: Sean Duff, Our son, former resident of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, México
- Français: Michel Marin, Retired resident of Limal (Wavre), Brabant wallon, Belgique
- Lietuviskai: Rita Navalinskiene, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Magyar: Maria Korasz, Librarian, Somogyi Memorial Library, Szeged, Hungary
- Polski: Jakub Halor, Resident of Siemianowice, Upper Silesia, Poland
- Portuguesa: João Marçalo, APAC – Associação Portuguesa dos Amigos dos Caminhos-de-ferro, Lisbon, Portugal
- Romanesc: Alina Darie, Intern, Embassy of Romania in Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Slovensko: Dusan Galez, Resident of Ljubjana, Slovenia
- Suomeksi: Juhani Bergström, Resident of Hyvinkää, Finland, and volunteer in the Finnish Railway Museum
- Svenska: Jason Morales, Resident of Skara, Sweden
- Türkçe: Erkan Kiraz, Resident of Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey
Webmasters
I would like to thank the webmasters of the following URLs that have been of help. I hope that our readers will visit each of them.
- English Preserved Railways and Museums – Links to railway museums throughout England.
- European Rail – Information about railways in Europe.
- Existing Railway Stations in New York State – Pictures and information about current existing railway stations in the state.
- Historical Societies and Museums – Links for sites around the world, but concentrating mainly on the United States.
- Mike’s Railway History – A large list of railway URLs, with emphasis on the year 1935.
- Index to Railroad Historical Societies – A large list of historical societies of major railroads operating between 1930 and 1950, with URLs and E-Mail addresses.
- The North American Tourist Railroad and Railroad Museum List – Locations of rail sites in Canada and the United States, including both with and without URLs, using maps.
- Preserved Orenstein and Koppel Steam Locomotives – Extensive list in chart form giving information and location of these locomotives around the world.
- RailroadData.Com – Links to over 4,000 railroad websites.
- Railwatch – Links to railway sites in United States and a few in Canada.
- Rails Canada – Links to Canadian railway sites.
- Russian Railway Portal – Information on railways in Russia.
- Steam Locomotive Dot Com – Vast source of information on steam locomotives around the world.
- TrainNet Forum – International railway links covering several areas.
- UK Heritage Railways – A guide to the entire heritage railway scene in the United Kingdom.
- Webville and Hypertext Railroad Company’s MAIN YARDS. – Contains documents on a wide variety of railroad topics.
- http://www.uq.net.au/~zzpeasvi/2ft_gauge_links.htm – Information about narrow gauge railways in Australia.