I'm a retired Information Technology System Engineer who specialized in messaging (e-mail); a webmaster, railfan, and aspiring amateur musician. Unlike most railfans trains don't rule my life, they're just one of my many interests. Married in 2002, with a daughter. I have been interested in railroads since my youth.
Age: old enough to remember when red states meant Russia and China. And when BLM meant the land management people.
Foster, Gerald L. (1996). A field guide to trains of North America (First ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN0-395-70112-0.
Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1978). The second diesel spotter's guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN0-89024-026-4. Including Industrial units!
Dorin, Patrick C. (1972). Chicago and North Western power. Burbank, CA: Superior Publishing Company. ISBN0-87564-715-4.
Solomon, Brian (2000). Klancher, Lee (ed.). The American diesel locomotive. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing Company. ISBN0-7603-0666-4.
Glischinski, Steve (2007). Pernu, Dennis (ed.). Regional railroads of the Midwest. St. Paul, MN: Voyageur Press. ISBN0-7603-2351-8.
Robert A. Liljestrand; David R. Sweetland (January 1, 1995). New Haven Diesel Locomotives Vol. 1: Switchers and Road-Switchers. Bobs Photo Railroad Books. ASINB007ZTKDF6.