I suspect you are thinking about the one in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.

Regarding oral history, I am always looking to have interesting stories preserved on "The Roundhouse" podcast: https://theroundhousepodcast.com/

Feel free to send recommendations.

Now just four months from the beginning of EMD's 100th Anniversary year, I thought it might be appropriate to bring this topic back for comment. The desk now has several notes from authors and researchers who want to contact somebody who had first hand knowledge of "this" or "that" aspect of history, some of them not realizing that the arithmetic of age has beaten them to the interviews they seek.

In the case of EMD, anybody now looking for first-hand accounts prior to the 50-Series will have a very tough time. The folks who worked on the introduction of the Dash-2's and the F40PH are now in very short supply. I heard of two more people from those projects who passed in the last couple months .

Back around 1970, Jim Boyd took some photos at an EMD group meeting, portraits of the people he was working with. Of nearly a dozen employees photos he took, I have been able to confirm all but one of the people have now passed. Fifty years is effectively the "Edge of History", at least as far as interviews with first-hand participants are concerned.

PC

Two books about Amtrak will be published later this year. White River Productions is hopeful that Fifty Years of Amtrak Trains by Bruce Goldberg and David C. Warner will be ready in about a month, and Indiana University Press will publish Amtrak, America's Railroad by Geoff Doughty, Jeffrey Darbee and Eugene Harmon is scheduled for October.

Additionally, at about the time the May issue was released, Northwestern University’s Transportation Library recently produced online exhibit called All Aboard Amtrak: the 50th Anniversary of America's Railroad in honor of Amtrak’s 50th anniversary. The exhibit looks back at highlights from the railroad’s history through passenger ephemera, reports, and other documents in the library’s collections and can be found at https://sites.northwestern.edu/amtrak50/.

This month we lost another long-time veteran of the locomotive building industry, Terry Monaghan. He worked in Locomotive Sales for EMD, Alstom, Motivepower, and Wabtec during nearly 50 years in the industry. The group of people left from the 1970s is steadily shrinking.

PC

I was at a Freedom Train reunion event in Portland a few years back and none of those folks are getting any younger. It'd be a crime against history not to have all that experience written down for a book someday...
Ross, I'm talking to you especially! I asked you even then if you'd ever put a book out of your experiences. The railfan world would love such a book!

Unfortunately the preservation of the knowledge and experience of the people who lived the history too often gets neglected until they are incapacitated or gone.

PC