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Category:Roger Puta
Roger Puta (1944 - 1990)
- See also: Roger Puta photo
- See also: Steve Meredith collection
- See also: Puta Roger Puta on the HSWDPI Wiki.
- See also: Roger Puta on the NARDPI Wiki.
Roger Puta grew up along the CB&Q in the western suburbs of Chicago. He became a railfan in college and went to work for the Santa Fe and Western Pacific, living in the Washington DC area and San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s. Puta later ran a fleet of tour buses He focused considerable attention on passenger trains and traveled widely in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. "If it ran on rails, or was related to something that ran on rails, he photographed it," according to his friend Marty Bernard.[1] After his death in 1990, his photos passed to Mel Finzer. They have been scanned and posted by Marty Bernard, are have been released into the Public Domain, and may be used with attribution to "Roger Puta".[2][3] Also according to www.flickr.com the photos are in the public domain.
