March 28, 2024

Memories from 55 years ago this week!

Yes, March 30th, 1969, would be my first day of employment with Radio New York Worldwide, Incorporated, the owners of WRFM and…

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November 2, 2023

“The Rocket” Steam Locomotive and the Rise of the American Railroad

An article was recently published about Philadelphia’s famed Franklin Institute — which is in the process of redesigning a major exhibit space…

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June 8, 2023

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…

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Conrail Locomotive 8090 by Tony Kimmel
October 27, 2022

A Railroad Named Conrail and Its Heritage!

This is an encore of a Musings originally posted on this page on August 16, 2018, with a couple of additions. Conrail…

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October 13, 2022

1970’s Radio Trivia …

Wasn’t I having fun? Pages from old newspapers saved because they contained a story related to your life or work, or simply…

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February 10, 2022

Love & …

This beautiful sculpture art is a design conceived by one Robert Indiana, and first appeared on a Christmas card created for New…

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December 2, 2021

Christmas & Precious Memories

By the time you will read this in the early days of December, numerous radio stations in all corners of our nation…

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August 26, 2021

Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show – Part Five

As noted before, prior to leaving Maryland in the early part of this year, I sorted and sifted through many mounds of…

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December 17, 2020

MARLIN’S GOOD-TIME PICTURE BOOK! – PART 3

Even though the photos and stories in this chapter have nothing to do with Christmas, since we are in the heart of…

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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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September 19, 2019

The “WOW factor” … a key part of life!

When’s the last time you said or thought “oh wow” in reacting to something you saw or heard? If you were never…

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August 8, 2019

Mike’s From-the-Heart Memories!

Recently, I received a “from the heart” communiqué from a WDVR staff member who joined us fairly early in the station’s life,…

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