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Living with Steam EXTRA: William A. Steventon & the Railroad Record Club, Part 1


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In this episode of LwS EXTRA, we begin our look at the life and legacy of William A. Steventon and the Railroad Record Club.  The RRC was a brilliant and very innovative way for Steventon to share the many sound recordings he made in addition to those from other railfans who also started making recordings of trains from the mid 1950s onward. The introduction of the “consumer model” portable tape recorder made it possible for dozens of “Railroad Sounds Audio Recording Engineers” to hit the road and set up their gear near railroad tracks all over the country. Compared to many of his contemporaries (like O. Winston Link, Brad Miller, or even John Prophet), Steventon may have been more prolific in his recorded output. However, he is not as widely known as others who were also out in the field making authentic recordings of trains.

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