{"id":475,"date":"2021-12-02T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:16:13","slug":"william-f-howes-jr-2015-gerald-m-best-senior-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/william-f-howes-jr-2015-gerald-m-best-senior-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"William F. Howes, Jr.: 2015 Gerald M. Best Senior Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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William F. Howes, Jr., 2015 winner<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n

The senior achievement award is for a significant and longstanding contribution to the writing, preservation, and interpretation of railroad history. The 2015 award goes to William F. Howes, Jr., a civil engineer by education. Howes joined the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1963 following brief employment in the engineering department of the New Haven Railroad. Over the course of his 25-year career with B&O, the affiliated Chesapeake & Ohio and Western Maryland, and successors Chessie System and CSX Transportation, Howes worked in the operating, industrial engineering, passenger services, casualty prevention and executive departments, retiring in 1988 as vice-president research & analysis.<\/p>\n

Since leaving CSX, he has been a consultant to the industry and government on railroad passenger and risk management issues.<\/p>\n

Howes has long had an interest in railroad history. He joined R&LHS in 1956 and helped organize the Southeast Chapter in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1989. He was elected to the R&LHS board of directors in 1991 and has served in various capacities, including newsletter editor, vice-president, and, from 1994 to 2003, as president. He has coauthored three books on railroading:\u00a0<\/span>The American Railroad<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>(Welsh, with Howes and Boyd);\u00a0<\/span>Travel by Pullman<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>(Welsh and Howes); and\u00a0<\/span>The Cars of Pullman<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>(Welsh, Howes and Holland)<\/p>\n

The full citation appears in\u00a0<\/span>Railroad History<\/i>, Spring-Summer 2016.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Return to Gerald M. Best Senior Achievement Awards   The senior achievement award is for a significant and longstanding contribution to the writing, preservation, and interpretation of railroad history. The 2015 award goes to William F. Howes, Jr., a civil engineer by education. Howes joined the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions\/487"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlhs.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}