William D. Middleton
William D. Middleton (born March 25, 1928 in Davenport (Iowa) , † July 11, 2011 in Livonia (New York) ) was an American railroad author, photographer and historian.
Life
William D. Middleton was born the son of the doctor William Middleton. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1950. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin . He then worked for almost 30 years until 1979 with the US Navy Civil Engineer Corps in Korea, Japan, Turkey and Morocco, among others. He worked as a structural engineer and structural engineer and designed bridges. Then he was until 1993 head of building management at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville .
William D. Middleton took an early interest in the railroad. At the age of 10 he took his first photos of railways. From 1951 he regularly published articles in the magazine Trains on various railways in the United States (especially Interurbans ) and worldwide. Photos of him were on the front page of the magazine 20 times. He received the Gerald M. Best Senior Achievement Award from the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society in 1984 and the Fred A. and Jane R. Stindt Photography Award in 2006.
His articles have also appeared in the journals Railway Age , Railway Track & Structures and International Railway Journal from Simmons-Boardman Publishing . At this publisher, Middleton was also the co-editor of planning guides for local rail transport and the organizer of several railway conferences for the Railway Track & Structures .
He was married to his wife Dorothy, who died in 2009, for 53 years and had two sons.
Works
- 1961: The interurban era , Kalmbach
- 1964: North Shore; America's fastest interurban , Golden West Books
- 1967: The time of the trolley , Kalmbach (2nd edition 1987 Golden West Books)
- 1969: The railroad scene , Golden West Books
- 1970: South Shore, the last interurban , Golden West Books (2nd edition 1999 Indiana University Press)
- 1974: When the steam railroads electrified , Kalmbach Books (2nd edition 2001 Indiana University Press)
- 1975: Some Korean journeys , with his wife Dorothy H. Middleton, Royal Asiatic Society Seoul
- 1977: Grand Central, the world's greatest railway terminal , Golden West Books
- 1983–1985: Traction classics: the interurbans , Golden West Books, 3 volumes
- 1986: China by rail , Trans-Anglo Books
- 1989: From bullets to BART: issued in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Central Electric Railfans' Association, 1938-1988 , The Association
- 1994: North American commuter rail 1994: including a detailed user's guide for every system in the US and Canada , Pentrex
- 1996: Manhattan gateway: New York's Pennsylvania Station , Kalmbach Books
- 1999: Landmarks on the iron road: two centuries of North American railroad engineering , Indiana University Press
- 2000: Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take: railway journeys , Indiana University Press
- 2001: The bridge at Québec , Indiana University Press
- 2002: The Pennsylvania Railroad under wire , Kalmbach Books
- 2003: The last interurbans , Central Electric Railfans' Association
- 2003: Metropolitan railways: rapid transit in America , Indiana University Press
- 2007: Encyclopedia of North American railroads , Indiana University Press, Associate Editor
- 2009: Frank Julian Sprague: electrical inventor & engineer , together with his son William D. Middleton III, Indiana University Press
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Middleton, William D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American railroad writer, photographer, and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Davenport, Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 2011 |
| Place of death | Livonia (New York) |