An historic bridge with a new life!
Isn’t this a beautiful walkway? It’s known as the Walkway Over the Hudson and sits more than 200 feet above the waters…
Twisted and Bent – A Guest Commentary!
During this Freedom Week, it just seems so appropriate that I share this Monday Morning Memo commentary as written and published just…
Coca-Cola … Bill Backer … and I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing!
I doubt that “Coca-Cola” needs any further description or clarification, and a song is a song, except this story is about a…
Railroad Memories … The “Newtown Branch” – Part Two
As noted in Part One, picking up with the arrival of the 1950s … the Reading Company would begin replacing their fleet…
Railroad Memories … The “Newtown Branch” – Part One
Newtown is a borough located in the southern portion of Bucks County, Pennsylvania … an area immediately to the northeast of the…
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s famed GG1 Locomotive!
I recently found myself in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, an area where I’ve not spent much time in recent years. And, since it’s…
A Keyboard & Its Master … Dan Troxell!
Dan Troxell is one of only two instrumentalists (the other being steel guitar player Curt Shoemaker) who still releases recordings which include…
Small-Town America … Radio & Records
The small town I’m referencing is Shenandoah, Iowa … which has a population of little more than 5,000 and is located in…
In the News … March 1945!
When XM Radio’s Savoy Express had its own newscaster, Ed Baxter … here’s what you would have heard Ed reporting on “the…
A Marlin Radio Industry Saga … Part Two!
Picking up from where I’d left off in my previous Musings … This was early 1958. Having gained the knowledge and secured…
A Marlin Radio Industry Saga … Chapter One!
Before I actually begin to tell you the story to which the headline relates, I’d like to preface what led up to…
Celebrating Luxury Rail Travel … in the 1930’s & 1940’s!
As the message read under that headline on this set of five U. S. postage stamps issued on August 26th, 1999 ……