The Rip Track

Books

• The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887. Chicago, Illinois: Railway Age. 1887.
• Serpico, Philip C. (1988), Santa Fé Route to the Pacific. Palmdale, California: Omni Publications.
• White, John H., Jr (1973) American Single Locomotives and the "Pioneer". Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, number 25.

Journals and magazines

• "Arrivals and Departures: Iowa Saga Incomplete," Trains (June 1991). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. p 18.
• "Arrivals and Departures: Obituaries," Trains (June 1991). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. p 18.
• "Menk happy with BN's 'first hundred days'," Railway Age (July 13, 1970).  New York, New York: Robert G. Lewis, Publisher. p 11.
• "Obituary," Railway Age (August 9, 1976). p 43.
• "People in the News," Railway Age (July 13, 1970). New York, New York: Robert G. Lewis, Publisher. pp 55-67.
• Phillips, Don (June 1991). "Riding with the presidents: An Amtrak perspective." Trains.  Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. pp 27-28.
• Scull, Theodore W. (June 1991). "'I foresee even faster improvement'; An interview with Amtrak President W. Graham Claytor Jr." Trains.  Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing.  pp 24-25.
• "Whitman takes over as Katy president," Railway Age (July 13, 1970).  New York, New York: Robert G. Lewis, Publisher. p 12.

Other sources

• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (August 14, 2009). Former Canadian Vice President J.W. "Wes" Lyster, 1923-2009. Retrieved September 5, 2009.
• Palmer, Alfred T., photographer (December 18, 1942). Group photo of railway and rail labor management at the Railway Labor Management Conference in Washington, DC. Available through the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division website.
• Various authors. A number of Wikipedia articles about railroad companies and people involved in rail transport worldwide.