My first memory is of a train. Mum would take me walking along the B & O Railroad Georgetown Branch (below) and I was hooked: What else has such a physical, sensorial, aural presence and motion?


Dalecarlia Tunnel, 1975 by Wm. Duvall on Capital Cresent Trail website

Later, as other kids collected baseball stats I was keeping track of railroad initials, track diagrams, schedules. I learned everything I could. The networked nature of railroad schedules and traffic flows appeals to my mind, which is born of a family of civil engineers. I've particularly become an expert in scheduling, marketing, and improving operations.

As I grew up I watched the rail's decline, aware that it was partly self-inflicted. With the influence of my sixties generation parents, I wanted to grow up and change the system to revive rail and transit. I became a trainman on the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad and later in between ministry gigs, Conductor and Marketing Director for the Cape Cod Central Railroad.

Cape Cod Central Railroad Elegant Dinner Train By Fred Pegnato