Our Instructor, Mike Wikman, has 45 years of railroad operating experience. He has the
expertise to provide the following services:
- Classroom and on the job instruction for Enginemen, Brakemen,
Conductors and Supervisors for training into railroad operating positions.
- Laptop computer basic railroad, air brake, simulator
training for Locomotive Engineers and Train Dispatchers.
- Public speaking and seminars on railroad related subjects.
- Classroom training on handling hazardous material.
- Expert witness in courts of law.
- Mechanical locomotive car and locomotive inspections.
- Riding special locomotive and car movements.
- Make safety audits of your property.
- Make evaluations of your Enginemen in a more fair way, not knowing them previously.
- Fill in for your sick, retired, and resigned engineers. Mike is
certified on a Class One railroad and has operated SD70MAC
and -944CW locomotives with 160 cars. Started out on
commuter passenger trains.
- Remote control train operation.
- Automatic Train Control, cab signals, with or without speed control.
- Steam locomotives and their operation. Mike ran them in Korea
and on the Erie Lackawanna and Jersey Central as a Road
Foreman of Engines. See the Tom Snyder Show ....
- Operating rules, general code, timetable special, air brake
and train handling instructions, and safety books. Your books or
let us make one for your railroad. Remember, each rule you
have that you don't need, can be used against you.
- Physical characteristics of your railroad. We make maps and
can video tape it.
- Photography: Mike uses a Nikon N8008S with different lenses and
a Sony Super 8 Videocamera. He can make what you need:
calendars, hand outs, advertisements, and maps of the road
for training and legal use.
- Any railroad technical books that have been printed, he can get. Try him!
Work Experience
- Three years as a Locomotive Electrician and Locomotive Engineer
in Korea and as a Locomotive Instructor at Ft. Eustis, Virginia with
the U.S. Army.
- A Locomotive Fireman-Engineer on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western
and Road Foreman of Engines on the Erie Lackawanna Railway.
- General Road Foreman of Engines on the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
- Asst. Director of Inspection and Review for the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority City of New York.
- The Missouri Pacific Railroad in Texas as a Road Foreman of Engines.
- Amtrak as Supervisor of Locomotive Operating Procedures and Senior
Locomotive Engineer Instructor to Transportation Manager in
San Antonio, Texas.
- Chief Mechanical Officer for the North American Carriage Corp.
running a passenger train from San Antonio to Monterey Mexico.
Railroading As A Hobby
- Mike has a collection of 50,000 slides with doubles and copies
that he will trade or sell. Write for catalogue $3.00, returned with order.
- R&LHS bulletins: 100 of them for sale. Many railroad
magazines. Write for catalogue: $3.00, returned with order.
- Books of rules, diesel locomotive operating manuals, other
technical books, employee and public timetables. Catalogue
is currently in the works.
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