About the Author

Kenneth C. Springirth is the author of eight other railroad histories, including most recently Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad and Arcade and Attica Railroad. He has a vested interest in rail history, as his father was a trolley car motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a motorman in Washington, D.C. A transportation historian, he has been documenting and chronicling the history of railroads in the region since 1962.