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I’d first met Tony at one of the MPHS annual meets or was introduced to him at a train show. Tony gave a few slide shows at the annual meets and the room was always packed. He’d put up a random, favorite slide he’s taken 20 years ago; he’d look at the screen for a moment and, without any written notes, talk about the location, weather that day, what train he was on, meets with other trains or who they were switching that day. Tony was quite the author, one of my favorite articlees was published in CTC Board Illustrated in January 2003 where he talked about hiring on with the Mopac and the differences between his summer job with the Santa Fe and his new employer. He discussed the Mopac management being somewhere “..between the Boy Scouts and U.S. Marines”. It’s a wonderful insight to starting off as a new trainman in Kansas.
Tony wrote articles for The Eagle as well. ‘Fast Freight to Pueblo’ (Spring 1999) and ‘Bad Night on the Council Grove Subdivision’ (Summer 2001) are two that put you in the cab of an SD40-2 with Tony. His writing style was full of facts but easy to read too.
He was a longtime supporter of the MPHS. His annual membership was paid up for years in advance and when he learned he had cancer he made arrangements so his slide collection would be donated to the society as well as his 40 year collection of dispatcher sheets – which was one of his true collecting passions. He donated his Mopac artifacts and model railroad collection to the society so the proceeds would support the archives.
Tony will be missed.
