A Gathering in Memory of Stephen D. Bogen
Sunday, March 30, 2003, 11 a.m.
King Juan Carlos of Spain Center at NYU
53 Washington Square South, NYC
If you plan to attend, please call and leave your name at 212-663-2196 before March 28th.

jdconrad@snet.net

> A Gathering in Memory of Stephen D. Bogen
> Sunday, March 30, 2003, 11 a.m.
> King Juan Carlos of Spain Center at NYU
> 53 Washington Square South, NYC
> If you plan to attend, please call and leave
> your name at 212-663-2196 before March 28th.

Name does nor ring a bell, can you fill us in on who this individual is?

b.hume@rogers.com

> Name does nor ring a bell, can you fill us
> in on who this individual is?

Reprint of Dave's earlier post:

Steve Bogen

Posted By: J. David
Date: Monday, 3 February 2003, at 10:56 a.m.

The Valley Railroad has just received word that Steve Bogen died this past weekend. Steve was very infulential in the developement of the Railway Preservation movement as we know it. He was one of the founders and editors of the Steam Passenger Service Directory (which evolved into Kalbach's "Guide to Tourist Railroads and Museums"). The Steam Pasenger Directory sponsored the first joint meetings of tourist and museum railroad organizations in the 1960s'. From these meeting grew the present "TRAIN" industry trade association. He was a fixture at the annual "TRAIN" convention for many years. For many years Steve served on the Board of Directors of the Empire State Railroad Museum and helped orchestrate the transfer of their collection to the Connecticut Valley Railroad Museum (later Railroad Museum of New England). He has served on the Valley Railroad Co. board of dirctors for many years. Steve owned Quadrant Press, which specialized in railroad subjects. A memorial service for Steve is being planned for by the Valley Railroad.



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> Reprint of Dave's earlier post:

> Steve Bogen

> Posted By: J. David
> Date: Monday, 3 February 2003, at 10:56 a.m.

> The Valley Railroad has just received word
> that Steve Bogen died this past weekend.
> Steve was very infulential in the
> developement of the Railway Preservation
> movement as we know it. He was one of the
> founders and editors of the Steam Passenger
> Service Directory (which evolved into
> Kalbach's "Guide to Tourist Railroads
> and Museums"). The Steam Pasenger
> Directory sponsored the first joint meetings
> of tourist and museum railroad organizations
> in the 1960s'. From these meeting grew the
> present "TRAIN" industry trade
> association. He was a fixture at the annual
> "TRAIN" convention for many years.
> For many years Steve served on the Board of
> Directors of the Empire State Railroad
> Museum and helped orchestrate the transfer
> of their collection to the Connecticut
> Valley Railroad Museum (later Railroad
> Museum of New England). He has served on the
> Valley Railroad Co. board of dirctors for
> many years. Steve owned Quadrant Press,
> which specialized in railroad subjects. A
> memorial service for Steve is being planned
> for by the Valley Railroad.

Having had Steve publish a couple of my books, I'd add that his Quadrant Press did an excellent job of encouraging and producing books on subjects that the more mainstream railfan press wouldn't touch, and he also had a distribution operation that helped get other publishers' books on obscure but worthwhile subjects into circulation. In his quiet and sometimes odd way, he did a lot to help preserve history.

Slightly off the subject but interesting, his father, Jules Bogen, wrote what is still probably the definitive business history of the anthracite railroads back in the 1920s. It's extremely rare and hard to find now, but some large libraries have it.


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