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UPDATED APRIL 5, 2008

"Even when the loss of his presence gives us pain,

still a certain pleasure arises in our mourning and lamentation;

for pain is felt at the loss of the beloved,

but pleasure in remembering him,

and, as it were, seeing him as he lived and moved."

"A passage from the Rhetoric of Aristotle"

Our Lady of the Railways Chapel - South Station, Boston - 1963

Conductor Joseph A. Cordova
New Haven Crew Base
A railroader and a great friend for 38 years, passed away on
Thursday, March 20, 2008

GARRY LIBBY TRIBUTE - CHRIS PERRONE TRIBUTE
LARRY SOLOMON TRIBUTE - STEVE PARKER TRIBUTE

Stephen M. Soltys

Track Foreman Steve Soltys, brother of retired Locomotive Engineer Ron Soltys,
passed away.

SOLTYS, STEPHEN M., 47, of Brookwood Rd., Cranston, died Thursday, March 22, 2007 at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence.

New Haven Crew Base Locomotive Engineer Lee Huff and former Boston Crew Base LSA Kathy Skinner
passed away the last week of February, 2007.

Conductor Wallace "Wally" Franklin

Springfield Crew Base
Penn Central - Conrail - Amtrak

Rest in Peace - February 2007

Conductor Mike B. Kieon

Penn Central - Conrail - Amtrak

Rest in peace.

January 12, 2007

Two good guys.
Former Boston Amtrak Conductor Dennis Denault (left) and Vic Gobbi.
Dennis Denault passed away on March 25th, 2006 in Florida

Retired Conductor and legend of the First Street Yard "puzzle switch"

Amtrak Conductor - Harold W. Swain,
Rest In Peace - South Boston, May 12th, 2005

FAREWELL TO NEW HAVEN CREW BASE CONDUCTORS GARY KRESTA AND JOE "JODI" LINGANE.
Rest in peace. March 2005

Two good friends and plain ol' good railroad guys!

Railroaders we said goodbye to in 2004..........

Eric Artz - Former LSA Boston Crew Base, Conductor - MBCR

Tommy Callahan "Tommy Cal" - Carmen - New Haven Mechanical Department

Thomas Garvey II - Conductor - New Haven Crew Base

Michael "Mike" Maloof - Conductor, UTU General Chairman - Penn Central, Conrail, CSX

Jed Miller - On Board Service Supervisor - Boston Crew Base

Manny Pacheco - Trainmaster - Amtrak, MBCR, former Train Dispatcher

Brother Thomas M. Ormiston
Conductor - Southern Pacific Railroad - Amtrak - Metrolink

More railroad friends who have left us......

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