Acknowledgments

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

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
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
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
Roger Miller, Resident of Freeport, IL
Deb Ehret, Reference Services, Elkhart Public Library, Elkhart, IN
Linda Chapman, Reference Librarian, Readers' Services Department, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN
Millicent Jackson, Lawrence Library, Indianapolis Marion County Public Library, Indianapolis, IN
George Berghoff, NKPHTS Information Director and resident of Indiana
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
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
Scott M. P. Hawbaker, Webmaster and Steam Locomotive Mechanic, Western New York Railway Historical Society, Buffalo, 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
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
Teresa Johnson, Independence Visitor Center, Philadelphia, PA
Cindy Ulrich, Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA
May Langmann, Local History and Genealogy Dept., Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, Chattanooga, TN
Carol Kaplan, Nashville Room, Nashville Public Library, Nashville, TN
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
David N. Currey, Resident of Houston, TX
Howard Laker, Historian, Gulf Coast Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Houston, TX
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
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.