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Doug Riddell Still writing???

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:46 PM
I don't know when these articles were written, but under the railroad industry / freight railroads section (at the left on the home page) there are several pieces he wrote.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:23 PM
I liked Rail News, I was disapointed when that got canned.
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Posted by adrianspeeder on Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:50 PM
He is good. Mr. Riddell, WHERE ARE YOU?

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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:15 PM
It's too bad Rail News went under. I really enjoyed Mr.Riddel's writing.
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Posted by Paul3 on Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:34 AM
I think the only reason why he got published in Trains was because of the take over of RailNEWS' subscriptions by Kalmbach. RailNEWS, which used to be Passenger Train Journal and Pacific RailNEWS combined, had Mr. Ridell's monthly column. When Pentrex, who had purchased PTJ, bungled the business and abruptly canceled publication, Trains picked up the subscriptions, and you could choose a Kalmbach publication to finish out your agreement, IIRC. Because they apparently had a few of Mr. Riddell's columns already written, Trains published them.

But I do not thing that Trains ever hired Mr. Riddell to write for them.

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Doug Riddell Still writing???
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:23 AM
It occurs to me that it has been quite a while since I saw anything by Doug. Is he still writing for TRAINS??

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