March 12, 2020

Beautiful Music’s Greatest Hits!

Radio’s Easy Listening or Beautiful Music format––of which I have been called a pioneer and pace-setter, even the Father of its modern-day…

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The story of WRFM
February 27, 2020

Advice for the New York Advertising Community – PART TWO!

This is the second part of a Marlin’s Musings Encore, where we bring visibility to call letters that are unfamiliar to most…

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WRFM Coverage Area Map & Logo
February 13, 2020

Selling the Advertising Community – Part One!

This is Part One of a two-part Marlin’s Musing Encore displaying how New York City’s WRFM told its story to the vast…

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January 16, 2020

All about Trains … a Museum visit!

During my November trip to the west coast of the United States, I was finally able to visit this building, the California…

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January 2, 2020

Reflections: Christmas Music on Radio!

Just when you thought Christmas was behind us and all of the all-Christmas-music stations had returned to regular programming, here comes Marlin…

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December 19, 2019

Tell me, is there a Santa Claus?

Following up on my last Musings, presenting the collection of my favorite Christmas season songs, we turn to this historic holiday season…

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November 21, 2019

Train up a child … the Value of Mentoring!

This insightful message was shared with his congregation by Reverend Mark Adams, Senior Pastor of Redland Baptist Church in Rockville, Maryland: Television’s…

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The 1940's Savoy Express
October 24, 2019

In the News … World War Two era!

Here are summaries of news from the months of the World War Two era beginning in the Fall of 1939, as reported…

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October 17, 2019

October 18th … 44 years ago!

While this is a very personal story, I hope you’ll take a couple of minutes to read … as I think you’ll…

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October 10, 2019

Myron & his Little Station that Did!

While I never had the honor of knowing or even meeting him, Myron Jones is a name that has been recognizable to…

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October 3, 2019

Fear & Courage!

Tim Moore, who is Managing Director of the Audience Development Group a radio industry consulting organization … recently posted this commentary as…

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Reading Company Newtown Pa L-5a 4-6-0 589 May 4 1941 Baldwin 1902
September 26, 2019

There’s an old steam locomotive known as a “camelback!”

As you see in this photo, the engineer’s cab is located on the side of the boiler — the large round portion of every steam locomotive, where the steam is generated to power the driving wheels — rather than behind the boiler, which is the norm for virtually every other type of steam locomotive.

Hence, this design took on the “camelback” name, because the engineer sat astride the boiler. It became a very popular locomotive for pulling short passenger and freight trains on railroads such as the one which I grew up with … the Reading Railroad….

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