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Ron Ziel (Ronald Paul Ziel) was born on 17 July, 1939 in New York City, New York, is a Ronald Paul Ziel was American railway historian American railway historian. Discover Ron Ziel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Ronald Paul Ziel
Occupation Photographer/Historian
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 17 July 1939
Birthday 17 July
Birthplace New York City, New York
Date of death 15 December, 2016
Died Place Idaho Falls, Idaho
Nationality United States

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1939

Ronald Paul Ziel (July 17, 1939 – December 15, 2016) was an American railway historian.

1942

Born in Manhattan, his family moved to eastern Queens in 1942, and eventually settled in Melville in 1949.

He first became interested in railroads as a small child, when his mother would take him to watch the trains at the Long Island Rail Road stations at Queens Village and Bellerose.

1957

He attended Huntington High School, graduating in 1957, and studied advertising design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1961.

1960

He first began photographing steam locomotives at Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal in the fall of 1960.

According to Ziel, these were the last steam locomotives to be used in freight service in the state of New York.

While at Pratt, Ziel joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and upon graduation received a commission as a reserve second lieutenant in the United States Army.

1961

He served in the Army Signal Corps, stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia, from September, 1961 to January, 1962, when he was given a medical discharge because of a diabetic condition.

While stationed at Fort Gordon, Ziel began photographing steam locomotives in the southern United States.

1963

Eventually these photographs were included in his first book, “Twilight of Steam”, published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1963.

He has since written ten more books, including five about the Long Island Rail Road, and has also contributed articles and photographs to Railroad Magazine, Railfan & Railroad and Trains.

He also served as executive editor for Dan's Newspapers, a chain of community newspapers serving the East End of Long Island, in addition to working as a writer and staff photographer for those publications.

1965

In 1965, Ziel and his longtime collaborator George Foster published the book “Steel Rails to the Sunrise”.

In the course of researching the book they met numerous railroad historians and photographers on Long Island, an experience that led them to form a Long Island chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.

1966

The Long Island-Sunrise Trail Chapter was chartered in 1966, with Ziel serving as its first president, an office he held until 1969.

Other founding members included Winfield S. Boerckel, F. Rodney Dirkes, Harold Fagerberg, Arthur J. Huneke and Robert Michel.

Ziel was also the founder and first president of the Steam Locomotive 39 Preservation Fund, which was responsible for refurbishing LIRR Engine #39 and moving it from the Carriage House Museum in Stony Brook to a new location in Riverhead.

Throughout his life Ziel has traveled to over 50 countries and has, by his own estimate, taken over 25,000 photographs of steam locomotives in regular service.

2005

In April 2005 Ziel moved from his long-time home in Water Mill, New York to Tucson, Arizona.

2008

In 2008, the Archives at Queens Library purchased Ziel's collection of Long Island photographs.

This collection includes both Ziel's own photographs, as well as images by other photographers that Ziel collected.

While it takes as its major subject the history of the Long Island Rail Road (and to a lesser extent its parent company, the Pennsylvania Railroad), the collection also includes many photographs documenting subways, buses, trolley lines and other forms of mass transit in Brooklyn, Queens and suburban Long Island, as well as views of boats, docks, lighthouses, residences and many other subjects relating to the history of Long Island.

2016

He died at the age of 77 on December 15, 2016.

History of the Long Island Rail Road