Motorman Richard Maurer
My contribution to National Volunteer Week.
In September 2002 I met Richard Maurer at the Western Railway Museum. He took me and my brother around the barns, even into off-limits areas. After that we took a spin out on the line where I shot his portrait in his motorman attire.
I was working on a story about preserved trolley operations in California so we agreed to meet again at San José two weeks later where he gladly sorted the yellow Birney Safety Car out of the barn. He even let me operate it on the museum tracks. A true volunteer at heart.
Motorman Richard Maurer
My contribution to National Volunteer Week.
In September 2002 I met Richard Maurer at the Western Railway Museum. He took me and my brother around the barns, even into off-limits areas. After that we took a spin out on the line where I shot his portrait in his motorman attire.
I was working on a story about preserved trolley operations in California so we agreed to meet again at San José two weeks later where he gladly sorted the yellow Birney Safety Car out of the barn. He even let me operate it on the museum tracks. A true volunteer at heart.