William D. Middleton
Mr. Middleton is clearly the “dean” of the authors on electric traction. His published works include some 600 articles for magazines and newspapers around the world and 21 books on railroad and electric traction, of which The Interurban Era (1961), The Time of the Trolley (1967), and When the Steam Railroads Electrified (1974) are perhaps his best known. From Bullets to BART represents his first book for CERA. The Last Interurbans represents his second.
Born in Davenport Iowa, the grandson of the first chief surgeon of the Rock Island Lines, Mr. Middleton is a 1950 engineering graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and did graduate work in engineering and journalism at the University of Wisconsin. As an officer in the U.S. Navy he has served in a variety of Navy engineering assignments in Turkey, Morocco, the Pacific, and the mainland U.S. Upon retiring from the Navy in 1979 he joined the University of Virginia as its chief facilities officer. He retired again in 1993 and today lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with Dorothy, his wife of 47 years.
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