Conference on 4/29 all about the diesel locomotive

[daveklepper]

Hope to see good coverage in TRAINS

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone! Since Kalmbach often partners with the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, I wanted to let you know about the upcoming conference on diesel locomotives to be held on April 29 at College Station, Texas. There is an impressive line-up of speakers, including several authors and photographers whose bylines have graced the pages of Classic Trains, as well as TRAINS Magazine over the years. See below for details.

--Matt Van Hattem
Senior editor, TRAINS Magazine

Registration is open for "One Hundred Years: The Diesel Locomotive in American Railroading" at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, on Saturday, April 29, 2006.

The one-day conference, with a unique visual orientation, is being presented by the Center for Railroad Photography & Art (www.railphoto-art.org) and the Bush library. Colorful stories, advertising art, and paint schemes—plus significant unpublished information about development and technology—make this a memorable day for historians and enthusiasts alike.

All sessions except for the keynote address are in the theater at the Bush Library.

The cost is $85 per person or $75 per person for members of the Center.

The keynote banquet and address will be held at the Brazos Valley Cotton Exchange next to the conference hotel.

The fee includes the conference, admission to "Trains: Tracks of the Iron Horse,” a BBQ lunch, and a banquet dinner of steak or shrimp catered by Doe's Eat Place.

A registration form is at bushlibrary.tamu.edu/trains/conference.php.

For information, please call Robert Holzweiss at 979-691-4074 or e-mail him at [e-mail].

Speakers are:
--John Gruber, president of the Center, "The First Diesel and Other Stories”;
--John P. Hankey, independent scholar, historian, and railroader, "The Perils of Pioneering: Early Diesels on the B&O Railroad";
--Jim McClellan, retired Senior Vice-President for Planning at Norfolk Southern, "Motive Power and Economics";
--Greg Palumbo, an employee of Electro-Motive Diesels, "Colorful EMD Advertising and Styling";
--J. Parker Lamb, writer and photographer for 50 years, "Photographing Diesel Locomotives"; and
--Greg McDonnell, author of A Field Guide to Modern Diesels (Kalmbach, 2002), "Building Contemporary Diesels." McDonnell, a creative photographer, gives you an inside look at how locomotives are constructed today.

Mike Iden, General Director Car and Locomotive Engineering for Union Pacific, will give the keynote address, "Diesel Locomotives: The Next 25 Years." Iden also worked for the Southern Railway, Electro-Motive Division, and Chicago & North Western. He has a bachelor of science degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and a master of management degree from Northwestern University. Iden takes a brief look at diesel locomotive technology for the next quarter century, and discusses "what changes may we see?