Our Speakers -- So Far

Here are the speakers who have confirmed to date that they will be at the Saturday session, and pictures of those who have provided their photos.

We have quite a presentation schedule planned for you that day, and  we will be announcing several other speakers who we have invited as soon as they confirm their appearances.

Please keep checking back because we'll be regularly updating the speaker list.

• Banquet Speaker - JAMES W.  McCLELLAN, retired vice president-corporate planning  of Norfolk Southern; marketing analyst for both NYC and PC, and the central character of  Rush Loving, Jr.' s book The Men Who Loved Trains. speaking on The NYC: Was It Really Relevant?.
• NICHOLAS A. MARSH -- author of The Michigan Central Railroad: History of the Main Line - 1846-1901, and son, grandson, and great-grandson of three generations of MC railroaders, speaking on Perspectives on the Early MC
• DR. FRANK R. SCHEER, curator of  the Railway Mail Service Library, Inc, will be speaking on the New York Central System Railway Post Offices.
• KEVIN P. KEEFE, vice president-editorial of Kalmbach Publishing Co., and publisher of Trains Magazine,  on The NYC's Twilight Limited Passenger Train/
• GARNET R. COUSINS, an architect private practice, will talk about Detroit's Michigan Central Station -- It's Past, Present, and Future(?), a subject on which he the expert.
• JEREMY TAYLOR , former general manager of NYC, later PC, Southern Region, speaking on Status of the 8 Major Freight Yards, Pre-merger and at Present, an update of an article he wrote for the Central Headlight a few years ago.
• MICHAEL KELLY, whose grandfather was an executive with the Wabash Railroad and Ann Arbor Railroad, speaking on Rails Around Michigan, the same title as his just-published book about the railroad history in the Wolverine State.
• JOHN D. MARTIN, assistant editor of the Central Headlight, will describe NYC's Pioneering Flexi-Van Service which used truck swap bodies on rail cars, a predecessor to today's intermodal services.
• DONALD C WETZEL, a NYC employee and engineer for 17 years, and a NS employee for 3 years; assistant to the director of NYC's Technical Research Laboratory, and responsible for the jet-powered RDC car project will speak on The M-497's Run Into Railroad History.
•  One or two more speakers will be announced shortly, we're just awaiting their confirmations.