User:Robert A. Estremo

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I am a California resident and degreed construction manager and historian (Texas A&M University), with a lifelong interest in the history of a) railroading in the United States, b) Alaska and California, and c) the Spanish Catholic mission system (my main interest in participating here; I have personally visited each of the 21 mission sites, and have written about several of them extensively in an encyclopedic context).

Hourglass drawing.svg Where Robert lives it is approximately: 13:14


"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 1927.

I'm a believer in the proverbial "picture (being) worth a thousand words" philosophy so therefore strive to include plenty of pertinent images in the articles I produce, and when possible on other articles that I may stumble across. A list of CZ articles I have started include (all of which are based on entries I originally made at Wikipedia; the "oiler" articles are largely taken from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, as is also the case at WP):

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Miscellaneous

  • Developed Article Battle of Beecher Island [r]: An armed conflict between elements of the United States Army and several of the Plains Indian tribes which took place between September 17 and September 19, 1868. [e]
  • Developed Article Battle of Sitka [r]: The last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives, which resulted in a decisive victory for the Russian invaders. [e]
  • Developed Article Gustavus Franklin Swift [r]: An American entrepreneur, developer of the first practical ice-cooled railroad car and founder of a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th Century, over which he presided until his death. [e]
  • Developed Article Roy Marlin Voris [r]: A naval aviator, World War II flying ace, and founder of the United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the "Blue Angels." [e]

Railroading

  • Developed Article Aerotrain [r]: A postwar experimental streamlined passenger train set introduced by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in the mid-1950s. [e]
  • Developed Article Beep (SWBLW) [r]: A one-of-a-kind switcher locomotive built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at the company's Cleburne, Texas workshops in 1970. [e]
  • Developed Article CF7 [r]: An EMD F-unit that has had its streamlined carbody removed and replaced with a custom-made, "general purpose" body in order to adapt the unit for road switching duty; the conversions were performed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in their Cleburne, Texas workshops between October 1970 and March 1978. [e]
  • Developed Article Railroads in California [r]: A brief history of the network of interconnected independent rail transport systems located throughout the Union's thirty-first state and how they shaped the region's development. [e]
  • Developed Article Refrigerator car [r]: A piece of railroad rolling stock outfitted with cooling apparatus and designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. [e]
  • Developed Article San Diegan [r]: One of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated between March 27, 1938 and April 30, 1971. [e]
  • Developed Article San Diego and Arizona Railway [r]: A short line, standard gauge American railroad founded by "sugar heir," developer, and entrepreneur John D. Spreckels in 1919, dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by many engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved. [e]
  • Stub San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway [r]: Short line, standard gauge American railroad founded in 1933 by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company as a direct successor to John D. Spreckels' San Diego and Arizona Railway. [e]
  • Developed Article San Diego Electric Railway [r]: A short line, standard gauge American electrified railway system founded by "sugar heir," developer, and entrepreneur John D. Spreckels in 1891. [e]
  • Developed Article SD26 [r]: An EMD SD24 diesel locomotive that was specially modified by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the mid-1970s. [e]
  • Developed Article Troop sleeper [r]: A railroad passenger car that had been constructed specifically to serve as a "mobile barracks" for transporting troops during wartime over distances sufficient to require overnight accommodations. [e]

Spanish missions

Mission Buenaventura-class oilers

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