Contributors

Steve Bulota is a native of South Bend, Indiana and yes, he bleed for Notre Dame. His grandfather taught there. He rode on the New York subway for the first time in July of 1965 while on vacation.

Peggy Darlington Is a long time member of the Transit Museum and has worked for Transit since 1998. She has been interested in subways since she was a young girl. Other hobbies include reading, video, travel and computing.

Gregory Jordan-Detamore contributed the page on the R4 Swampoodle Connection. Photo not available

Russell Doucette has worked for Transit since 1979, coincidentally the date being 9/11! This is his first and only job after high school. Russell has been interested in trains since infancy when the LIRR running behind his house “made him smile”. Other hobbies include listening to his scanner and genealogy. Russell has assisted with the Ghost Booth series. He has recently retired from NYCT.

Jeff Erlitz, A newsletter editor with the New York Division of the Electric Railroaders Association has provided some opening and closing dates for the NYCT Section as published on Brenann's Site . Photo not available

David Paul Gerber has worked on the LIRR and NYCT sections of the site. He organized and participated in the recent Ultimate ride, which was aired on the Discovery/NY Time cable channel in October, 2003. The show had as its goal, the riding on a single fare of 465 stations without leaving the system (at the time the film was shot, 4 station were fully closed due to reconstruction), and he has accomplished that goal along with other people on the show. He has been interested in Transit since 1974. Other hobbies include traveling, reading, sports and surfing the web

Todd Glickman joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) in January 2000, serving as the MIT liaison for companies worldwide. Prior to joining ILP, Todd was Assistant Executive Director of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the professional society for meteorologists, which is based in Boston. At AMS, Todd's responsibilities included strategic planning for conferences, headquarters' liaison with AMS member boards and committees, support to the AMS Council, and public relations. In addition, Todd was Managing Editor for the AMS Glossary of Meteorology (2nd edition).

From 1979 to 1994, Todd held a variety of positions with WSI Corporation of Billerica, MA, including Manager, New Product Development, Media Marketing Manager, and Manager of the Government Program Office. WSI was a pioneer in the development of real-time weather information, providing value-added information and workstations for clients in media, aviation, industry, academia, and government. Some of Todd's projects included development of the weather data/information infrastructure for The Weather Channel; the introduction of digital satellite and radar imagery for television; planning and implementation of a network of weather briefing systems for the Federal Aviation Administration; and serving as liaison with the National Weather Service and professional organizations. In addition, Todd was instrumental in helping to develop the public-private partnership between the weather information industry and the Federal government.

Concurrently, Todd has a more than 20-year career as a radio Meteorologist, and has been heard on dozens of stations nationwide.

Today, he can be heard on all-news WCBS Newsradio-880 in New York City. He has chaired numerous meteorological conferences and symposia, and Served on a number of boards and committees for the American Meteorological Society. He was awarded the AMS Seal of Approval for

Radio Weathercasting in 1979, and was elected a Fellow of the AMS in 1997.

Todd's interests include transportation systems of all types, and he is an officer and past-trustee of the Seashore Trolley Museum of Kennebunkport, Maine, where he serves as an instructor for rapid Transit, streetcar, and bus operations. At MIT, Todd is the President of the Technology Broadcasting Corporation, which oversees the campus radio station WMBR-FM. Todd serves as the "official voice of Station reporter."

Marty Goodman is a co-editor of the Station reporter Newsletter and long time executive Board Member of TWU local 100.

Charles Green has contributed a page about Pittsburgh's light Rail System. He is a self confirmed " Mass Transit Nut" and rides SEPTA at least once a week.

Maria Mijares is a Rutgers University graduate, Maria Mijares’ contemporary realist paintings have been awarded two Painting Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, among numerous other honors and awards. Her contemporary realist paintings have been exhibited nationally and abroad in museum and university galleries.

Mijares’ paintings are held in the collections of Washington DC Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the estate of late John Cardinal O’Connor, NJ State Senator John Lynch, (New Brunswick City Hall) and the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes (Santander, Spain), Newark Museum, Montclair Museum, NJ State Museum, Zimmerli Museum, Morris Museum, and the estate of the late Rick Danko ("The Band").

Her hand-colored lithograph, "7 City Subway" was published by The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper with a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and is archived at the state’s museums. See here: http://Mijares.NeoImages.net

Mijares’ slide show lecture, "A Painted Journey," has toured nursing homes (HEART Grant, Union County Freeholders) as well as schools, community, cancer and caregivers’ support groups. Her work was featured in a WOR-TV hour-documentary, "Caring for Your Parents."

Featured in two books:
"Fearless Creating" Dr. Eric Maisel, 1995, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, xv, p.189
"Artists Observed" Harvey Stein, 1986, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NYC, p. 30-31

PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS

    "Religious Iconography for a Secular World" one of three-artist panel
     Jersey City Museum, "artTalks," (March 24, 2002)

     "The Politics of Artmaking: Interrogating Power/Courting Authority"
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,
Kress Foundation Department of Art History Symposium 2001
(20 art historians and artists)
     "For My Art’s Sake: Facing off with Power" (paper presented 3/ 3/01)

"Mark’s Silver Linden," MARK JOHNSON CD cover,
"Green Summer Rain" Strong Recordings, Nashville, TN (upcoming)

John Mooney is a co-editor of the Station Reporter Newsletter and Vice Chair for Station Agents for TWU Local 100.

David Pirmann: From Hoboken, NJ, Dave is the webmaster of nycsubway.org . His full time work keeps him busy as a systems management consultant at a New York City financial firm. Besides running nycsubway.org some of his other hobbies are traveling and photography.

Dave worked on the Trolley Bus section of this site which was downloaded (with permission) from his site. nycsubway.org.

Chris Sattler Is a contributor to the LIRR pages. Chris grew up in the Ridgewood section of Queens, near the M Line of the NYC Transit System. He got interested in trains and railroading in high school. He currently resides on Long Island. Chris designed the tablet on our home page. Photo not available.

Constantine Steffan From the Bronx, NY. Constantine grew up on the streets of the South Bronx. He went to Catholic School and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Manhattan College. His interests include Computers, Reading, and Model Railroading. Constantine is also an avid subway fan. Mr. Steffan has been employed by NYCT as a Station Agent since January 2001. He has previous experience with NYCT, which was the time he spent at the NY Transit Museum volunteering as a Tour Guide and Historian.

Megan and Maja Vann serve as our African American history consultants. Megan is 17 and is a student at Medgar Evers Preparatory High School.

Megan is president of the student government. Hobbies include reading and dancing. Maja is age 8 and is a student at Cush Campus. Her hobbies include singing, reading and bike riding. Photo(s) not available

Bob Vogel, better known as Chu Chu Bob, acquired a love of trains from his Dad putting up a Lionel set every Christmas, and by playing on and near the PRR passenger track between Haddonfield and Philadelphia, where Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line passenger trains ran frequently, pulled by PRR or Reading steam engines Bob’s fascination with subways came from riding the Delaware River Bridge Commission trains into Philadelphia from Camden as a young child. The Bridge Train route is now part of PATCO.

Bob has an AB (that's Latin for BA) in Science from Rutgers University - Camden and has worked as a research chemist for the same pharmaceutical company for 31 years, commuting on PATCO, Market-Frankford Subway-Elevated, and Philadelphia & Western RR (SEPTA Route 100) for 15 years until his job moved to South Brunswick, NJ. He has recently retired after working 34 years for the same employer

Wayne Whitehorne: Subway fan, trainspotter, and all-around fan of the Canarsie Line, a page about which he contributed to the line-by-line section of www.nycsubway.org . Wayne has also contributed numerous photographs of other stations around the system to www.nycsubway.org. For this site, Wayne has contributed the LIRR Babylon branch station-by-station Guide and has assisted with the BMT and IRT Tile Pages. He is also our resident map and tile expert.

.subway-buff is your Webmaster and is camera shy. and counts the Low-v as their favorite subway car.