Charles C. Robinson
Charles Robinson inherited an interest in electric railways from his grandfather who was an early draftsman for the John Stephenson Car Company. This instinct was intensified by early sightings of trolley lines especially the Galveston-Houston Electric Railway. Having moved to Baytown to within a hundred yards of the relatively long-lived Houston North Shore, he and his childhood friend Paul DeVerter became fully active traction fans who at an early age planned to complete a book on this fascinating railway. For Charles, this interest further expanded into modeling HO interurban railways, starting a restoration project of a Crimson Limited parlor car, taking part for a few weeks each summer as motorman-conductor at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine and writing short articles about activities in traction modeling. Now retired from the Xerox Corporation, he was a physicist dealing with light interactions with materials. He looks forward to making other contributions to enhance the memory of this engaging form of rail transportation.
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