Deane Motis served as Director of Sales at Global Voyages Group, LLC. Mr. Motis has more than 30 years of combined sales, marketing and operations experience in the travel & transportation industries. His particular area of expertise is the development, integration and implementation of combined sales & marketing plans. Before joining Global Voyages Group, he was the owner of Rails North-West, a private marketing & imaging company doing business in the Pacific Northwest ... and Canada. His travel industry experience includes senior director and managerial level positions at Holland America Line, Cruise West, Princess Tours, Exploration Cruise Lines, and Mexicana Airlines. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and South America. In addition, he has authored three books on the transportation industry and his photographic works are frequently seen in a variety of books & trade publications. He is an alumnus of the University of Colorado and City University - Seattle, Washington.
Montana Rail Link (reporting mark MRL) is a privately held Class II railroad in the United States. Founded in 1987, MRL, which operates on trackage originally built by the Northern Pacific Railway, is a unit of The Washington Companies, and is headquartered in Missoula, Montana. The railroad runs between Huntley, Montana and Spokane, Washington, largely within Montana, and the main line passes through the towns of Missoula, Livingston, Bozeman, Billings, and Helena. Montana Rail Link connects with the BNSF Railway on both ends and also in Garrison, Montana. The railroad has over 900 miles (1,400�km) of track, serves 100 stations, and employs approximately 1,000 personnel. The main yard is in Laurel, Montana, with smaller yards located in Missoula, Billings, and Helena.
The Montana Historical Society is the guardian of Montana's memory. Established in 1865, one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the West, the MHS's historic collections of artifacts, photographs, and documents are exhibited in six galleries. In 1969, it became the official state Archives and the repository for state agency records of permanent value. Since the founding of the Montana Historical Society in Bannack in 1865, its historians, curators and educators have worked as a team to save and share the stories of Montana. The mission of the Montana Historical Society is to promote an understanding and appreciation of Montana?s cultural heritage.
The Missouri Pacific Historical Society, Inc. (MPHS) was organized as a not-for-profit corporation in 1980. It is chartered in the state of Missouri for the purpose of obtaining, preserving, and sharing information and material relating to the Missouri Pacific Railroad and its subsidiaries. The current MPHS is an outgrowth of a prior group which was formed in 1974. The society's area of interest includes not only the Missouri Pacific Railroad, past to present, but its predecessor railroads. These include but are not limited to Texas & Pacific; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico; International Great Northern; Gulf Coast Lines; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; New Orleans, Texas and Mexico; Missouri-Illinois.
Thomas Cutler Miller began work as a locomotive fireman on 07/22/1941 and as a locomotive engineer on 11/25/1948.
Alfred E. (Ted) Michon was president of the Colorado & Southern, the Fort Worth & Denver, the Bangor & Aroostook, and the Canadian American Railroad. He had more 25 years experience in senior marketing and strategic planning positions with both Burlington Northern and Union Pacific railroads. Michon played an active role throughout his career in leading railroad merger and acquisition activity both as a corporate executive and as a consultant. Most recently, he managed BNSF Energy Department during the buildup of the Powder River Basin coal boom, developing and implementing policies for the lucrative market. He developed similar policies in the Grain and Grain Products sector for both BN and UP. Michon also advised reformation efforts of several the state-owned and state-subsidized railway enterprises, including within Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Uzbekestan, the former Soviet Union and Russia, and Bulgaria.