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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.

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.

Robert Turner has been researching, photographing and writing about transportation history since the 1970?s. He has written hundreds of articles and reviews and his photos have been widely used in books, magazines, exhibits and websites. He received the Canadian Railroad Historical Association?s Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Association for State and Local History?s Award of Merit for the excellence of his books, along with many other awards. A retired heritage consultant and a curator emeritus at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, Bob has traveled widely around the world photographing the last steam railways and early industries, while documenting the people, places and stories of this disappearing history and culture. Among other projects, since 1988 he has been Project Historian at the SS Moyie National Historic Site at Kaslo, BC, where a major restoration is underway on the world's oldest passenger sternwheeler. For his work on Canadian railway history he received the Canadian Railroad Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob was writer in residence at Pierre Berton House in Dawson City in the spring of 2009. He lives in Victoria, BC.

The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans. The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation; both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The Union Pacific legacy began in 1862 with the original company, called the Union Pacific Rail Road, which was part of the First Transcontinental Railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. Two more Union Pacific railroads were formed after that, the Union Pacific Railway (the second company) which absorbed the original company in 1880 and the Union Pacific "Railroad" (the third company) which absorbed the Union Pacific Railway in 1897-1898. The third incarnation of the Union Pacific Railroad which operated from 1897 to 1998 is referred to as Mark I and it makes up the bulk of the Union Pacific history.