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 Arnine was Born and raised in Rego Park, Queens. Have been interested in transportation all of his life. His other interests include Also, he has a big love of movies and television. Mostly, documentaries and has been called a History Channel, Discovery Channels, and A&E fanatic. As you can probably tell, he loves history mostly in transportation, criminal justice, banking, and computers. Has an Associate's Degree in Criminal Justice and an Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.
   
Steve Bulota Steve Bulota is a native of South Bend, Indiana and yes, he bleeds 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. 

His family moved to New Jersey when he was 10, and it was there that he became immersed in the New York City subway system. My parents say he forgave them for moving when we started going to New York on a regular basis.)  At 16, they moved once again to Connecticut, where he finished high school and enrolled at UConn.  (Go Huskies!)  His folks came out to Colorado in 1978 when his father took early retirement from Uniroyal and put in another 9 years at Gates. 

Steve moved out here in September of 1980 after finishing college (graduating on the very same day that Mount St. Helens blew up) and after subbing in several school districts, he went back to night school and got Associates in Electronics Technology.  Steve now works in Boulder, Colorado as a customer support technician for a mass flowmeter manufacturer.

Once a year every fall, he takes a trip back east to my alma mater for Homecoming and always stays in New York for a few days for some serious railfanning.

   
Peggy Darlington  

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.. She retired in October of 2010. Peggy had a  role in saving many mosaics tablets and historical details in the NYCT system

 
Mary Donch Mary Donch A native of Long Island City and the Flushing Line, I hired out as a Senior Girl Scout Service Aide and high school intern in the Transit Museum back in the summer of 1976. I've been an NYCTA Conductor (second female, youngest in the System), Motorman, and Train Dispatcher. I went to Metro-North as a Conductor in 1989, and have been a Locomotive Engineer there since 1993. I won the International Rail Rodeo in 1995, and thanks to that I was a Communications Controller for MARTA during the Summer Olympics. I'm still a Girl Scout, and have developed programs on railroading for older Girl Scouts and am the President of the Metro-North Trefoil Guild. The railroading helps pay for the sewing/embroidery machine that I can't take as a dependent on my taxes, even if I do have to feed it and take care of it !Mary is the Metro North Reporter for the site

 

 
Photo not available Gregory Jordan-Detamore contributed the page on the R4 Swampoodle Connection.
 
Russell Doucette 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 and  is also deceased. Your staff extends our sympathies for his service to the site and Transit. He will be sorely missed.

Your webmaster had the pleasure of working with him and he was a great person to work with! Rest in peace, Russell! May all your signals be green and the customers courteous, patient and polite.
 
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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 Brennan's Site .

 
David Paul Gerber  

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  

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 Marty Goodman is a co-editor of the former Station Reporter Newsletter and long time executive Board
 
Charles Green  

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.

 
John Long Photo John Long Is a life long resident of Staten Island, having grown up in the Port Richmond area and in the shadow of the former Right Of Way of the North Shore Railroad.   It's prominence led to his interest of the abandoned line and research into the history of Staten Island's defunct Railroad line of the North Shore and the former South Beach line.

While he has various other interest, such as history, music, comics, art, reading, science and the occasional video game.  He also works two jobs he regularly writes to his local Congressman and Borough President championing the reactivation of a Railroad line he has never rode on, because it’s an important key to transportation future on the Island and a important part of Staten Island's history.

He serves as our SIR Reporter.

 
Maria Mijares 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 John Mooney is a co-editor of the former Station Reporter Newsletter and former Vice Chair for Station Agents for TWU
 
Pat Moriarty

 

Pat Moriarty Is a CTA with Transit and contributed his day. 

 Adam Moss  Adam Moss  is a student at Middlesex County College in NJ and serves as our Montclair Boonton Line Reporter.
   
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Michael O' Leary  grew up loving the old elevated lines and was fortunate to ride some of them in the 1950's.He is  a  retired police officer and  resides in Paramus, NJ with his wife. Mike serves as our resource person for the old elevated lines in New York.
   
 Kevin Painter has modeled, photographed, restored, watched, & loved trains of all types ever since he can remember. I guess being born a block from the Philadelphia & Reading Main Line in Reading PA had something to do with that. He has made many wonderful friendships through this hobby & hope that continues. Professionally he  work in the construction industry with an emphasis on furniture building, which has given me the skills to do various restoration projects for the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society which he joined in 1986. He has been a member of the West Jersey Chapter National Railway Historical Society since 2005. 
   
David Pirmann  

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

 
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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 tablets on our site.

 
Constantine Steffan 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.  
 
Photo(s) not available Megan and Maja Vann, sisters, 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.

 
Bob Vogel  

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 Whiutehorne 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, L Train , has  assisted with the BMT and IRT Tile Pages. He is also our resident map and tile expert.
   
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