Jim Wrinn

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

Jim was a wonderful friend. I miss him already. In his years at Trains, he did so much for the Preservation Movement. Peace, my friend, peace.

MD Ramsey · **Joined:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:52 pm **Posts:** 192

He will be missed……

Overmod · **Joined:** Thu May 24, 2012 1:37 pm **Posts:** 2492

RATS.

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2126

A great loss to the hobby and the industry. The Trains Magazine EMD AT 100 video that arrived today in the mail identifies Jim as Executive Producer. He championed the project and invited many of the people who took part in it.

PC

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:10 pm

One of preservation's heroes is now with the locomotives he loves.

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:16 am

A big loss. I had heard Jim had the Big C but was hoping they were able to hold it off. Clearly, they couldn't.

Jim was a true preservationist with the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer and posting on this forum before he got the Trains job. He was a qualified engineer on NCTM 2-8-0 604 (BC&G 4).

Professionally he had been with the Charlotte Obesrver newspaper before Trains. When I was at Ft. Bragg NC, I felt the Observer was the best newspaper in the region. It has won 5 Pulitzers.

We'll all miss him.

Phil Mulligan

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

A sad, sad day. Jim was a true rail preservationist.

co614 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:02 am

A good friend of steam and railroading in general and a gentleman for sure.

He shall be missed. RIP, Ross Rowland

Mark Hedges · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:55 am

Very sorry to hear about this. I never really met him but we did have a little bit of correspondence when he helped me get on the Welcome Back 1309 trip via wait list. RIP.

Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:06 am

He lived down the street from me in Concord during the growth phase at Spencer in which we were both involved, a very long time ago....... as I recall, as a more junior member of the reporting staff at the time he had the duty of babysitting the PTL implosion on site, but happily was right there when the Jim and Tammy thing actually blew up. Gave him national coverage.

Bon voyage.......

John Risley · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:34 pm **Posts:** 965

RIP Jim. I had very little interaction with Jim. He came around as the Polson #2 was nearing it debut under pressure. I liked him immediately and thought highly of him. No doubt most people feel the same way. Blessings.

Becky Morgan · **Joined:** Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:22 pm **Posts:** 495

John Risley wrote:

I liked him immediately and thought highly of him. No doubt most people feel the same way. Blessings.

That describes all of the times we happened to cross paths. Gentleman, gentle man, able to herd cats (or at least digital-age-resistant souls), armed with a stock of great stories...I’d have loved to hear him talk about the PTL mess and how he navigated those choppy waters! Here’s hoping for clear track all the way up.

The big · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:41 pm

Sad New, sad day, Sir, you make me understand many thing about trains. I love your streaming i love read your text. Sir, I would have liked to meet you and talk to you about everything about the trains.

Mr Wrinn we will miss you all.....
My condolences to the Wrinn family

J'aimerais avec ma langue maternelle vous souhaitez un bon repos un bon voyage en premiere classe je vous le souhaite bien merci Jim

psa188 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:52 pm

This is horrible news. Condolences to the family.

It was also pretty unexpected. I just looked again at the April issue and no indication he was ill. His lead editorial appeared as if nothing was wrong.