William H. Baird - Editor

Founder of the (Canadian Railway) Observations newsletter in 1989 and a fan of trains since birth, William H. Baird has lived in Montreal and London, England and works in the computer industry. William is also an avid HO scale model railroader and has been a member of the NMRA  since 1988.

William founded CRO for the first time in 1989 which was then called "Observations" and mailed out. William is well known in railroad industry.

After collaborating with Will Baird for several months, Jody Moore joined the CRO team in August, 2008. He is a lifelong railfan and long-time rail industry worker, having worked as a conductor for the Port of Tillamook Bay railroad, and more recently, technical writer for the now defunct Colorado Railcar Manufacturing. Following the collapse of CRM, he moved back to his home state of Washington, where he is now living on the Kitsap Peninsula. In addition of CRO, Jody's 21-year writing career has included several articles for Trains and Railfan and Railroad magazines, and has been a staff writer for the Tri-City Herald newspaper. He's done various freelance writing jobs for several other newspapers as well. He is the webmaster of several railfan websites, including the Genset Rosters, Green Goats Rosters and the POTB Railfan's Guide.

Tim Hayman - VIA Rail East Coordinator

Brian Barker - GO TRANSIT NEWS EDITOR

Brian grew up in Northern Ontario and has been a lifelong railfan. Fond memories include watching Canadian Pacific and Ontario Northland trains around the Sudbury and Timmins areas. After moving to the Toronto area after college, he developed in interest in GO Transit and has enjoyed watching trains at Union Station and around the Bradford GO station. He's also interested in historic train stations and a broader railway history. Brian's grandfather was involved in the construction of the ill-fated Ontario Westshore Railway and his great-uncle worked in the CN repair shops in Stratford, Ontario.

Tony Vandenberg - CRO "RAILFAN SIDE OF THE TRACKS" Columnist

Born and raised in Edmonton Alberta, has always had a love for trains ever since his parents bought him a model Lionel "O" scale trainset as a child for Christmas in the mid 70's. Now an avid railfan for the last few years who enjoys spending time trackside in all seasons in and around Edmonton and parts of western Canada making high quality videos for his Youtube channel here.

MATT RYAN - SR. ADMINISTRATOR CRO 3.0 FACEBOOK PAGE

Matt is an American born professional photographer and public relations specialist currently residing in Western Labrador along the route of the Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway. The son of a locomotive engineer and a banker from West Virginia, he has spent his entire life around the railroad and particularly heavy haul railroading. He has traveled the world for work and railfanning, but his love for Canada and Canadian railways remain at the top of his list. He happily spends his free time with his family at trackside and operating ham radio in the ultra-remote boreal forests of Northern Quebec and the taiga of Labrador. Matt is responsible for administrating and updating our CRO 3.0 Facebook page.

Terry Muirhead - VIA Rail West Coordinator

Terry was born and raised in Vancouver.  He has lived there all his life. Terry has done several trips on VIA Rail including the following trains....The Canadian between Vancouver-Toronto several times, The Ocean several times Montreal-Halifax, Corridor Trains Toronto-Montreal, Toronto-Ottawa, Montreal-Ottawa, Toronto-Niagara Falls, Montreal-Quebec City all several times, & The Churchill Train Winnipeg-Churchill & back.
Terry has got a lot of knowledge on VIA Rail, its trains, services, and onboard services. Terry also has a few friends at VIA Rail in Vancouver.

Don McQueen - Collaborator (EMCC Diary)

Don McQueen, born in Toronto in 1938, was raised in Brockville, Ontario.His interest in Canadian railway history developed at an early age, and his articles, and contributions have appeared in a number of Canadian books and publications, including Branchline, CN Lines (SIG), Canadian Rail, Extra 2200 South, Kingston Rail, Locomotive Notes II, and Upper Canada Railway Society's Newsletter/Rail & Transit. He is also the author of "Constructed in Kingston" which is Don's premier Canadian railway history reference to date. With co-author Bill Thomson that volume chronicled the history, in text and image, of the Canadian Locomotive Companies of Kingston from 1854 to 1968.  Living in London resulted in a keen interest in locomotive production at GM..

Earl Roberts - Senior News Co-Ordinator

Paul Donovan - Eastern Regional Rail News Editor

Paul Donovan is the Eastern Regional Railways editor for CRO.  He grew up along the New Haven (winter) and Canadian Pacific (summer), and is a lifelong railfan.  Paul worked for both Amtrak and briefly, Chessie System as a contractor on the Chessie Steam Special.  He is retired, having worked extensively in the U.S. Defense Industry, publishing, and as a general contractor.  He is a graduate of Niagara University.

Patrick McKie - Ontario Regional Rail News Editor

Raised in the small town of Rutherglen, Ontario (Just a few mile east of the CPR first spike location); Pat grew up watching the CPR freight trains roll east and west. Now living in North Bay Ontario; He can be seem rail fanning the ONR, OVR and CNR alongside of three kids now and then. The ONR shops and contracts provide a variety of power and cars though out the area. Pat works in the Security field and is a volunteer with the Mattawa, ON Museum, and is currently working on a model railway display with the Museum. He also collect railroad artifact, researches the history of the area and has his own HO Scale layout in his basement. 

Brian Peters - CRO Consultant

Brian lives in Surrey, BC and grew up the son of a CPR Express employee. He traveled everywhere on CPR (The Dominion, The Canadian, The Kootenay and Kettle Valley trains), CNR, GNR and PGE trains out of Vancouver and he still enjoys travel on many trains across Canada and the USA.  Semi-retired, married 39 years and enjoying cruising and rail journeys with many more to experience. He has been a member over the years of CRHA- PCD, NRHS-BC Chapter, KVSR and recently joined the Fraser Valley Railway Heritage Society.  He enjoys HO scale modelling but doesn't have one of his own....at this time.  He models CPR and TH&B (1950 - 1968).  He has enjoyed CRO for the past 5 years or so and looks forward to assisting as/where needed., and the North East United States.

Mike Robin - ONR News Coordinator

Jean-Francois Turcotte - AMT News

"Born in 1978, Jean-François grew up in Roxboro,QC, observing CN's 1918-era Boxcab electrics pulling strings of old Pullman heavyweight commuter coaches dating back from the 1920's.  Although the venerable electrics were retired in 1995 and replaced by modern MR-90 EMU's, Jean-François's interest in railfanning and professional railroading never faded.  Jean-François is currently working on transit scheduling and operation-management softwares, a job which is keeping him busy travelling around the World visiting various bus and rail operators."

John Read - GR17F Coordinator