We're Nick Fry and Ron Hoess. We both work with railroad archives, Ron has volunteered at the Hagley Library and Museum in Wilmington DE and Nick with the B&O Railroad Historical Society. Nick by profession is an archivist with a degree in library science and has considerable experience in archive organization.
We had been working independently when in March 2010 we both had the chance to give presentations at the Railroad Prototype Modelers Meeting in Malvern, PA. Both our talks reflected a similar theme of retrieving archival material to help guide prototype modeling efforts. After the event we decided that a blog would be a good way to pool our knowledge and provide a platform to help model railroaders and anyone interested in railroads to learn more about how to access the wealth of archival material that is out there.
We hope that visitors to this site find the information useful and they will have a good time learning more about their favorite railroad subjects.
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We're Nick Fry and Ron Hoess. We both work with railroad archives, Ron has volunteered at the Hagley Library and Museum in Wilmington DE and Nick with the B&O Railroad Historical Society and now is the Curator of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library. Nick by profession is an archivist with a degree in library science and has considerable experience in archive organization.
We had been working independently when in March 2010 we both had the chance to give presentations at the Railroad Prototype Modelers Meeting in Malvern, PA. Both our talks reflected a similar theme of retrieving archival material to help guide prototype modeling efforts. After the event we decided that a blog would be a good way to pool our knowledge and provide a platform to help model railroaders and anyone interested in railroads to learn more about how to access the wealth of archival material that is out there.
We hope that visitors to this site find the information useful and they will have a good time learning more about their favorite railroad subjects.
(Note, the statements on this blog made by Nick are his personal thoughts and should not be construed as coming from the Barriger Library or the St. Louis Mercantile Library or the University of Missouri, St. Louis.)
We had been working independently when in March 2010 we both had the chance to give presentations at the Railroad Prototype Modelers Meeting in Malvern, PA. Both our talks reflected a similar theme of retrieving archival material to help guide prototype modeling efforts. After the event we decided that a blog would be a good way to pool our knowledge and provide a platform to help model railroaders and anyone interested in railroads to learn more about how to access the wealth of archival material that is out there.
We hope that visitors to this site find the information useful and they will have a good time learning more about their favorite railroad subjects.
(Note, the statements on this blog made by Nick are his personal thoughts and should not be construed as coming from the Barriger Library or the St. Louis Mercantile Library or the University of Missouri, St. Louis.)
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