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Welcome to RailroadRob.net! |
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Welcome aboard my site. I am a pediatric nephrologist and a railroad history buff. This site was one of my first efforts at creating a website, and it was a very good learning experience for me. However, this site is not terribly interesting or useful, and so I am no longer maintaining it. I am now dedicating my energies to two sites that are useful:
RailwaySurgery.org - An educational and historical site about railway surgeons, railroad hospitals and Army hospital trains.
KidneyWeb.net - Pediatric nephrology resources for patients and health care professionals
So please look around this site or visit my other sites.
Robert Gillespie
August 2006
Thanks for visiting! Enjoy!
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Alco RSD-4 no. 201, built in 1951, hauls a train at the Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Washington. |
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Quick Clicks-All Exclusive Content! |
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Railroad Content: |
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Guide to Railroad Hotels and B&B's
A detailed listing of hotels and inns with historic
ties to the railroads |
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Railroad Postcards and Documents
A collection of images - this page is now retired, but many of the images are displayed at RailwaySurgery.org. |
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Dr. Rob Railroad Rob |
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History of Herpolsheimer's
The department store in The Polar Express |
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Medical Content: |
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Advice on applying to medical school |
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From someone who's been there - and survived |
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Comments welcome: [email protected] |
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Alternative medical school curricula |
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You are on train number |
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Not your same old Gross Anatomy |
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NEWS FLASH!!
Railroad Rob meets
Thomas the Tank Engine!!
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Everyone's favorite blue locomotive pulled into Snoqualmie in July 2002 and again in 2003 and 2004. That's me getting ready to climb into the cab. It made me a little nervous. If you've read any of the Thomas stories, you know that the locomotives tend to pay very little attention to the instructions from their drivers! However, Thomas behaved very well, and hundreds of children went home absolutely delighted.
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How I Became Railroad Rob
It all began when I was 9 years old and my parents took me on my first train trip, from Kalamazoo, MI to Chicago, and then from Chicago to Houston aboard the long-lost train The Lone Star (see the timetable). I rode in the sleeping car Palm Path, one of a series of great "10&6" sleepers the Budd company built for the Santa Fe. At that time, I thought that was the neatest thing I had ever seen, and the rest is history. |
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