Hello and welcome to my web page.  I am a locomotive engineer for CSXT and have been one for 26 years.  I started my career with the L&N in 1971 as a clerk and transferred to transportation in 1972 as a trainmen/conductor. In 1976 I started training as an engineer and trained mostly under my very good friend and mentor Arthur John Glover.  I owe a great deal to him for the love I have for running locomotives and railroading in general.  My dad was a clerk with the L&N also from 1942 to 1976 when he retired, and before that he was a clerk with the New Orleans Public Belt railroad.  One thing that I can say is that railroading is in my blood and I have enjoyed it for most of my career.  With the advent of remote control engines, things have changed.  I never thought things would go the way they have, but this is technology for you, engines running around without engineers on board.

I hope with this web page to be able to share some of the hobbies that I enjoy the most from scuba diving to model railroading.  I have been very blessed to have a wife for 30 years that loves me and puts up with all the different hobbies I have had.  There will be articles by my high school friend and now co worker Jimbo Simmons who is a dive instructor.  I have been diving since 1994 and only wish I had done it sooner.  I have always enjoyed the water from the time I would go fishing and shrimping with my dad to the time I owned my own shrimp boat.  As they say " the best day of a mans life is when he buys his boat and the next is when he sells it".

I hope you will enjoy reading the articles about the dive trips and pictures that will be here from time to time.