I had not been paying attention to this thread, but as it turns out, this is one of the better ones.

Currently employed in the mechanical department of a local commuter railroad here in the greater NYC area. Been working in the rail industry for 12 years now, including 4 spent with GE in field service. Member and volunteer with RMNE since 2002. Was a typical foamer prior to my involvement with RMNE, however in the last 8 years I have learned that working on/fixing this stuff and then getting to see it run is MUCH more gratifying than taking pictures. That, and working on Alco RS3's is MUCH more interesting than EMU cars!

Currently volunteer at the B&O museum with the rail ops dept doing everything from trackwork to equipment maintenance and train crew (engineer for steam and diesel, as well as a trainmaster whatever that means on 1.5 miles of RR). Been railroading since I got my start at 19 as conductor for a certain shortline in the central area of CT during my breaks from college.

I am not involved in an organization, would like to in the future but am unable to currently. I have chased and been involved with steam locomotives for close to thirty years now as my father built a 1/4inch scale steam locomotive which I was able to operate at the age of four,(however it has not run in many years as I don't have the property to lay enough track nor do I have a shop and equipment to maintan it). I've been hooked on steam since way back then, currently in my spare time I find and chase steam locomotives all over, but with a family (of three girls) it does get hard to plan big trips for steam chasing.
Tom

I'm a director of the Conrail Historical Society, like rswinnerton. Sadly, I don't usually get my hands as dirty as some others with true preservation work, but I focus on some of the more mundane, boring things like our 16500+ page website, twitter account, publications, etc...

I'm a professional web developer in Baltimore, working with a number of large, non-profit clients as well as the usual corporate fare. Again, not too exciting, but I can see the old MA & PA roundhouse from my office.

I am a new member/poster and while reading a post in another topic, decided to honor the poster's request and come over to this discussion to introduce myself. I have no affiliation with any railroad, but have dabbled a little in the distant past. I am currently working for a company that manufactures refinery process equiment (ASME Sec. VIII, Div. 1 stuff mostly).

I am an associate member of the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, I used to be an active member there in the early 70s and then dropped out after getting married to a non-railfan. After a divorce in the late 90s I got interested in the rail hobby again. But time was not good to my knees and arthritis forced me into a wheelchair and I don't get out much anymore. I compile a daily list of transit news for a local transit forum here in Pittsburgh and come across articles about old rail preservation that I've been posting if I feel it would be of interest here.

BTW my screen name comes from the late Rege Cordic, a radio personality in the 50s and 60s in Pittsburgh. He was quite the railfan and model railroader. His father worked for the B&O.

My name is J.T. Ciampaglia. I'm 24 years old and volunteer at Steamtown working with Project 565. I'm still learning with the limited time I spend there but it never gets old and I never seem to forget what I learned.

I've been employed by Norfolk Southern since 1992,and have been an engineer since 1994.I've been in the Bellevue,Ohio to Portsmouth,Ohio ID pool/run for some time.I've alway's liked anything to due with railroads and RR history since i was young and i grew up in the Wakeman/Norwalk, Ohio area in the 1970's and got to watch the last trains on the NYC Norwalk Branch up until the line was scrapped shortly after Conrail was formed.My most favorite RR since has alway's been the LS&MS/NYC.

I was a previously a member of the Lake Shore Railway Assn./L&WV Ry.at Wellington,Ohio for 15 plus years and have volunteered many hours there.

I've been a member of the AC&Y Historical Society for about 12 years now.
I'm also a member and trustee of Firelands Rails To Trails Inc. in Huron County,Ohio wich i've belonged to now for about 4-5 years where our group manages the bike trail that is on the former LS&MS/NYC Norwalk Branch thru the county.Although the rails have been gone now for over 30 years my main focus is the preservation of railroad history on the line.If it wasn't for the RR's many bike trails would not be where they are today!

In Oct. of 1998 i bought and dismantled the old PA&W / AC&Y RR New Washington,Ohio depot wich was in decrepid condition and have since rebuilt it behind where i live.I also have a caboose Lehigh Valley 95026 wich i bought from Renovo Pa.in 1995 that i moved and have parked along side my depot and also a old rusty 40ft. boxcar that was once a NYNH&H car wich later became Wabash 60077 then N&W 360077 wich i moved,it needs some work yet and i also have a few RR signals i restored.

I'm very much into railroad preservation be it RR buildings or RR cars or anything RR.I just wish i had more time to keep up with what i have! When you work for a class 1 RR it doesn't give you much time to keep up with things.I might be a dreamer in life but if you dream and work hard enough your dreams will often come true.

I also enjoy metal detecting along old abandoned RR grades in search of the past.There are still some amazing RR artifacts out there to find if you search for them wich don't cost anything but the time to look for them,and i'm not talking about spikes,or tie plates,or track bolts!

Fritz N. Kuenzel

Currently a member of B&O. Work and family keep me from volunteering, but hope to some day. My great grandfather was a boiler maker for the PRR in Columbus, my father was an early member of the Ohio Railway Museum where I spent many weekends and did some restoration work in my teens.

I'm currently an IT guy working for the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, MD. Until just the other day :-( my office overlooked the CSX Met Sub where some days I would attempt to imagine B&O commuter steam instead of MARC. Perhaps that's why they moved me.

I am primarily involved with the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, working on various building and power & signal department issues. Most recently, I have been assisting in the supervision of the contractor installing a sprinkler system in our two older buildings.

I have also assisted several other trolley museums with trolley wire design, including the design for the new facilties at the Nationa Capital Trolley Museum.

I’ve been an active volunteer at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum since 1966. Been a $upporter of Electric City Trolley Museum Assn and its predecessors for nearly as long. My first railroad job was as a gandy dancer for the Pittsburgh Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railroad in the summer of 1969. I worked in the engineering department of the Reading Company and Conrail for five years before joining my current employer, Parsons Brinckerhoff, a consulting engineering firm where I’ve worked on scores of railroad and rail transit projects over the last 33 years. I figured out a long time ago that the problem with most consultants in the railway business is they don’t have enough trolley museum experience…

I have been a docent at the B&O Railroad Museum since 1995. I don't have the mechanical skills that many posters here obviously do, but I love talking about history in general, and railroads in particular.

I am a travel agent by profession, although I did work as a Sales Representative for VIA Rail Canada in the early 80's. Unfortunately that job fell victim to job cuts north of the border.

Well, right now I'm a member of the Wilmington DE Chapter of the NRHS, and have done some volunteer work on the Wilmington & Western in the past.

The Bluegrass Railroad Museum, in Kentucky. I do a little bit of everything which is outside, though the bare minimum which is inside. Currently working on lettering some Army Boxcars.

James