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When William McKinley Woody was born on December 16, 1894, in Barnard, Kansas, his father, Aaron, was 48 and his mother, Mary, was 35. He married Florence Ella Brown on May 18, 1915, in Chehalis, Washington. He worked for the Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Company and it's parent, the Union Pacific Railroad Company. From circa 1942-1959 he worked principally in The Dalles, Oregon area. William and Florence had six children in 14 years. He died on June 10, 1971, in Hood River, Oregon, at the age of 76, and was buried there.

Charles F. Wolfe (Fred, C. F.) worked for the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) from 1946 to 1970 and the Burlington Northern Railroad Company from 1970 to 1981. He was employed first as a surveyor, then as a draftsman and retired as Chief Draftsman at the King Street Station in Seattle (Wash.). According to his daughter, he surveyed portions of the Great Northern/Burlington Northern line from Skykomish (Wash.) to North Dakota.

Doug Wingfield is a railroad enthusiast, photographer and model rail hobbbyist living in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Gary Weisz worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1967 and later for the Burlington Northern. He has done archaeological research on Nothern Pacific Railroad activities in the Idaho area identifying construction camp locations.

Jeff Vawter's love of trains began at age two when he received his first model train set with a figure eight track. From there his interests (and layout) grew to include steam engines, steampowered excursions, railway history and rail photography. Retired from a career in education, he enjoys pursuing his hobbies that include train watching and photographing, He has written a novel, "The Deltic Disaster and Other Tales" about a steam locomotive preservation effort in Great Britain. He majored in History at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio and later studied at the University of Florida.

James A. Turner was a streetcar conductor in the Ballard and Fremont neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington and often photographed people and sites along his routes and railroad subjects in the Seattle area. James Turner married Kathryn Raymond on September 3, 1927.

John F. Strauss Jr. was a Traveling Passenger Representative in the Great Northern Railway's Passenger Traffic Department in the 1950s and 1960s. During that period he accumulated over one million miles of service on the Great Northern's "Empire Builder" which gave him an in-depth familiarity with the Great Northern Railway. He grew up in a railroad family. His father was a ticket agent for the Burlington Route and one of his brothers was a Milwaukee Road engineer. Since retiring he has written and publshed several books about the Great Northern, the Milwaukee Road, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington Northern.

Harold Fiske Stewart, passed away on December 26, 2005. He was 83. Mr. Stewart was born on March 15, 1922 in Pasadena to Laura Mendenhall Fiske and Dr. Harold Fiske. Dr. Fiske passed away in 1925 and his widow married Albert I. Stewart in 1927. A.I. Stewart adopted Harold in 1928 and gave him and his family name. The senior Stewart was a lobbyist for Safeway Stores and later was elected a California State Assemblyman from Pasadena. At age 17, Mr. Stewart was hired by the Pacific Electric Railway as a statistical clerk and assistant research engineer in the Research Bureau. In 1943 he advanced to train service, his first love, as a passenger conductor and a locomotive fireman in freight service. Following two years of service with United States Army 303th Infantry Regiment during World War II, he returned to the Pacific Electric Railway. He became a motorman on the "Big Red Cars" serving Pasadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, Glendora and Sierra Madre. He had the distinction of running the last Pasadena Short Line car when passenger rail service between Pasadena and Los Angeles was halted in 1951. For a short period he drove Pacific Electric buses, then went into freight service as a locomotive engineer with the Southern Pacific Railroad. He remained in his capacity until his retirement in 2002 from the Union Pacific Railroad. (The Pacific Railway merged with the Southern Pacific Railroad which later merged with the Union Pacific Railroad). With a total of 60 years, Mr. Stewart had one of the longest continuous service records on the railroad. Mr. Stewart was an active member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, served on the Committee of Adjustment for railroad employees, and was Chairman of Division 887 for many years. He was an avid railroad historian and photographer-having taken on this avocation in his youth. He has had numerous images published in railroad and trolley related books and magazines and was interviewed for several historical videos. He spent most of his vacations traveling all over the United States, Mexico and Europe in search of steam locomotives and electric railways to photograph. Mr. Stewart was a long standing member of Pasadena First United Methodist Church where his mother had been a Charter Member. He was an active 32nd degree Mason.