RyPN is please to welcome our newest staff member--Dave Lathrop of Lathrop & Associates. Dave is a familiar name and face to many of you, a longtime professional railroad restoration contractor and a frequent RyPN contributor.

Dave is joining our staff as Books Editor, and will be working to expand our book review coverage in the Briefs. He'll also be pitching in to help edit Briefs and Articles.

Welcome aboard Dave!

eledbetter@rypn.org

Thanks Erik. It will not escape many that the notice was made on Friday the 13th while Mercury is retrograde. Hopefully that won't betide too ill for RyPN.

In any case please do recommend books for reviews, ideas for articles (hopefully including offers to write them) or whatever you think would be good for publishing on this list.

Erik and Hume are pouring a lot of themselves into keeping this site alive and relevant. They deserve all the assistance we can offer them. I am pleased to be able to do what I can.

dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Dave,

Congratulations! This is a great place and it can always use more great people to help it remain a great place.

Now, as for that Friday the 13th, Mercury in retrograde business, well, yes that does make one wonder...but, as I always say: "What could possibly go wrong?"

--Malcolm

The Sun Singer
malcolmrcampbell@cs.com

Well, Malcolm, large hurricanes for one thing......

Interested in writing about museum development? You and Lesa must have learned some interesting and useful things.

dave

irondave@bellsouth.net