The Montana Central Railway: Copper, Coal and the Empire Builder
Bill and Jan Taylor live in Missoula, Montana. Bill is a retired high school English teacher, and Jan is a former German and English teacher. After retirement both worked on board the Montana Daylight and Grandluxe tour trains. They are Montana natives who have a life-long interest in the state s history. This has manifested itself in visiting and photographing many of Montana s mining camps and researching the state s railroad background. Boll has written a number of articles for historical journals. Jan is past-president of the Northern Pacific Historical Association. Both are often called on to give presentations for groups seeking historical information. The two have previously published four books on the railroad construction era in Montana They are: The Butte Short Line, Rails to Gold and Sliver Volumes I & II, and The Northern Pacific s Mullan Pass.