Inventory of the Anthony "Tony" Reevy Papers MS 894
CSRM Library & Archives staff
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
2022
Contributing Institution:
California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives
Title: Anthony (Tony) W. Reevy papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS 894
Physical Description:
6.1 Linear Feet
6 record cartons + 1 shoe-box
Date (inclusive): 1900-2000
Abstract: The material in this collection documents various aspects of Tony Reevy's writings, which include articles and books about
railroad photographers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, Jack Delano, O. Winston Link, David Plowden, Jim Shaugnessy, railroads,
railroad structures, the rails-to-trails conservation programs in North Carolina, and railroad folklore such as ghost stories,
music and railroad sounds.
Language of Material:
English
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Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff for details.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Tony Reevy, 2021
Arrangement
These papers are arranged into two series:
Series 1. Publications
Series 2. Subjects
Biography
Anthony "Tony" William Reevy was born on August 2, 1961 in Lubbock, Texas. He moved to Durham, North Carolina in 1976 and
graduated from High School there in 1979. In 1983, Reevy received a civil engineering degree from North Carolina State University
in Raleigh, which included a graduate-level railroad engineering course. In 1984, he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina
and in 1986, he earned an MBA in Marketing from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. In 1988, he received a MS in Mass
Communication at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Tony Reevy started a career in university public affairs, development, and administration in 1986, when he worked as a promotion
and development assistant at WMBU-FM at Miami University. He worked at WAMU-FM, at The American University, Washington, D.C.
starting in 1987 as a development associate, and was promoted to the position of corporate relations manager in 1989.
In 1990, Reevy moved to WFAE-FM at North Carolina State University at Charlotte to the position of Director of Development
and in 1993, was promoted to Director of Corporate Development. He moved back to Durham in 1994 to take the position of Director
of Library Development, NCSU Libraries, North Carolina State University at Raleigh. In 2001, he became the Associate Director
for Advancement and Lecturer for the Carolina Environmental Program / UNC Institute for the Environment at University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2007 was promoted to Senior Associate Director and Lecturer there.
Mr. Reevy has a long-standing interest in poetry and railroads. His focus is on the influence of the American railroad on
American folklore, photography, and literature. He has written numerous books and articles about railroad history. The articles
include a series "Artists of the rails" for the Railway & Historical Society's Railroad History publication. Subjects include:
O. Winston Link, Phil Hastings, Jack Delano, David Plowden, Jim Shaughnessy, and Lucius Beebe. Several articles were expanded
and published as books: O. Winston Link: Life along the line: A photographic portrait of America's last great steam railroad
(2012), The Railroad Photography of Jack Delano (2015), and The Railroad Photography of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg (2019).
The railroad photography of Phil Hastings is due to be published in 2023. In addition, Mr. Reevy's written several books
of poetry, a book about ghosts, a guide to railroad structures in North Carolina and an unpublished book about railroad whistles.
Mr. Reevy has served on the Board of Directors for several historical societies including the Norfolk & Southern Historical
Society, which he co-founded, (2001 to present), the Museum of Durham History (2009-2012), North Carolina Rail-Trails (1991-present),
and the Old North State Chapter, National Railway Historical Society (1996-2002). He was also an Advisory editor to Railroad
History, 2000-, and a member of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and the Center for Railroad Photography and Art,
where he was the keynote speaker at the 2013 Center for Railroad Photography and Art Conference. He served as Chair of the
Policy Board for the Albermarle-Pamico Estuary Program (2005-2012), chaired the Museum of Durham History's Strategic Plan
Committee (2009—2011), The Albemarle Pamico National Estuary Program (2010-2012), and the North Carolina Rail-Trails Nominating
Committee (2007) and By-Laws Committee (2008-2012).
In 2006, Reevy won the David P. Morgan article award presented by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society for his essay
on the life and work of Lucius Beebe "Writers of the Rail: Mixed Legacy". In 2014, Reevy received the John H. White, Jr. research
fellowship from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and a grant from the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill's
University Research Council in 2015 for his work on Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. He has been a member of the Lexington
Group of Transportation History since 2009 and won their 2014 Richard C. Overton Fellowship prize for his work on Jack Delano.
Tony Reevy is married to Caroline Weaver and has two children, daughter Lindley and son Ian.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Anthony Tony (W.) Reevy Papers, MS 894, California State Railroad Museum & Archives, Sacramento,
California.
Scope and Contents
The material in this collection documents various aspects of Tony Reevy's writings, which include articles and books about
railroad photographers Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, Jack Delano, O. Winston Link, David Plowden, Jim Shaugnessy, railroads,
railroad structures, the rails-to-trails conservation programs in North Carolina, and railroad folklore such as ghost stories,
music, and railroad sounds. Subject files include information about awards he received, promotional events including readings
he gave, and his advocacy for rails-to-trails. Tony Reevy is also a poet, but most of his work is not represented here. There
is one folder of his poetry.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. Permission for publication must be submitted in writing
to the CSRM Library amp;Archives
Selected Publications (Chronological)
"Railroads and American music," NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN, Volume 56, No. 5 (1991) pp. 4-19
"Ghostly locomotives," THE STATE, October 1992, pp. 14-17
"Railroad ghosts," NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN, Volume 59 pp. 4-25
"Riding the rail-trails," THE STATE, March 1994, pp. 31-33
"Haunted tunnels, phantom lights… stories of railroad ghosts," THOROUGHBRED PACES, November 1994, pp. 4-5
"The Aberdeen, Carolina & Western," RAILFAN & RAILROAD, January 1995
"The railroads of Durham," RAILFAN & RAILROAD, May 1995, pp. 40-47
"Virginia creeper: Green cover station and the Abingdon branch," NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN, Volume 59, No. 1 (1994), pp. 4-9
"The Yadkin Valley Railroad," RAILFAN & RAILROAD, June 1996, pp. 43-51
"Laurinburg & Southern: North Carolina's Switcher Railroad" RAILFAN & RAILROAD, August 1998, pp. 30-27
GHOST TRAIN! AMERICAN RAILROAD GHOST LEGENDS. Lynchburg, Virginia: TLC Publishing, 1998
"Dead man's bluff," OUR STATE, October 1999, pp. 38-39
A GUIDE TO NORTH CAROLINA'S RAILROAD STRUCTURES, 2001
:The Atlantic & Western Railway," NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN, Volume 66, No. 4 (2001)
"The North Carolina & Virginia Railroad," RAILFAN AND RAILROAD, May 2001, pp. 48-53
"Tweetsie country today," RAILFAN AND RAILROAD, October 2002, pp. 42-49
Elegy for archie," RAILROAD HISTORY, Number 187(Fall-Winter 2002), pp. 109-115
"Eastern shore railroad's Norfolk-Cape Charles car float operation," NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN, Volume 67, No. 4 (2002), pp.
4-15
"Rails to the foothills: North Carolina's Alexander Railroad,", RAILFAN AND RAILROAD, May 2003, pp. 30-35
"The Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad: Coastal Carolina short rail," NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN 68: 1 (2003), pp. 16-29
"Urban guide to the American tobacco trail", Aug. 2004
"Print & Image: O. Winston Link," RAILROAD HISTORY 190 (Spring-Summer 2004), pp. 78-99
"Train, train," OUR STATE, November 2005, pp. 148-153
Tony Reevy and Dan Cupper, "Writers of the Rail: Mixed Legacy" (Lucius Beebe), RAILROAD HISTORY 193 (Fall-Winter 2005), pp.
28-39
"Singing brakeman," RAILROAD HISTORY 195 (Fall-Winter 2006), pp. 42-49
"Artist of the rails: Jim Shaughnessy," NRHS BULLETIN 70, Spring 2005, pp. 4-23
"Artist of the rail: David Plowden," NRHS BULLETIN 71, Winter 2006, pp. 4-23
"Artist of the rail: Phil Hastings," RAILROAD HISTORY 198 (Spring-Summer 2008), pp. 66-78
"The ghost train of Bostian's bridge," TAR HEEL JUNIOR HISTORIAN, Fall 2008, p. 36
"Walker Evans, American communities, and the railroad," RAILROAD HERITAGE 20 (2009), pp. 13-16
"Jack Delano: Artist of the rails," RAILROAD HISTORY 201 (Fall-Winter 2009), pp. 30-41
"Men at work: Lewis Hine's photographs of railroad workers," RAILROAD HISTORY 204 (Spring-Summer 2011), pp. 42-51
"Urban mass transit: The life story of a technology", Mar. 24, 2011 www.press.jhu.edu
O. WINSTON LINK: LIFE ALONG THE LINE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S LAST GREAT STEAM RAILROAD (2012, 2018)
"The Link museum," RAILFAN & RAILROAD 31:5, May 2012, pp. 45-47
THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF JACK DELANO, 2015
"Off to war: Gordon Parks' photographs of Washington union station during World War II," RAILROAD HISTORY 212 (Spring-Summer
2015), pp. 38-47
"Images from a lost world," RAILROAD HISTORY (Spring-Summer 2016, pp. 6-9
"Life along the line, in color: O. Winston Link's color photographs of the Norfolk & Western in steam," NRHS BULLETIN, Volume
81, No. 1 (2017), pp. 4-27
THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF LUCIUS BEEBE AND CHARLES CLEGG, 2019
THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF PHIL HASTINGS, 2023
TRACKING AMERICA'S RAILROADS, unpublished
WHISTLES IN THE NIGHT, unpublished
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Link, O. Winston (Ogle Winston), 1914-2001
Shaughnessy, Jim
Plowden, David
Hastings, Phillip
Beebe, Lucius, 1902-1966
Clegg, Charles, 1916-1979
Delano, Jack, 1914-1997
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Railroad photographs
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
O. Winston Link Museum
Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railroad
Laurinburg & Southern Railroad Company
Virginia and North Carolina Railroad Company
Chesapeake and Albermarle Railroad
Railroads--United States--Folklore
Series 1. Publications
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of published articles, early drafts and critiques of books, book proposals and outlines, correspondence, photograph
captions and photocopies of photographs, research material including photocopies of newspaper clippings and manuscript material,
including an oral history of an O. Winston Link associate, a book contract for GHOST TRAIN!, and an expense list for it. There
is some fan mail for his book on railroad ghosts.
There are compact disks containing photographs from the Library of Congress for THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF JACK DELANO, photographs
to accompany an article about country singer Jimmie Rodgers, "Singing Brakeman," a disc containing two O. Winston Link photographs
of Norfolk and Western, three disks containing sound recordings from the collection of O. Winston Link, two Powerpoint presentations:
"The Railroads of Durham," (2005) and another about O. Winston Link, and a disc containing a copy of the second edition of
A DIRECTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA'S STRUCTURES.
Includes slides of photographs used to accompany the article "train, train". There are notebooks and note cards for WHISTLES
IN THE NIGHT, the "Artist of the Rails: Phil Hastings," "Laurinburg & Southern," and THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF LUCIUS BEEBE
AND CHARLES CLEGG.
Topics include: research, obtaining and publishing photographs, creating captions, seeking publication, marketing articles
and books through public talks, book readings, and conferences, awards, editing text and compilation of research material.
Arranged alphabetically by publication name.
box 1, folder 1
Early articles, unpublished
box 1, folder 2-4
"The Aberdeen, Carolina & Western"
box 1, folder 5-9
Artist of the rail: David Plowden, 2005-2007
box 1, folder 10-12
Artist of the rail: Phil Hastings
box 1, folder 13-17
Artist of the rails: Jim Shaughnessy, 2006
box 1, folder 18-21
Artist of the rails: O. Winston Link - Research material
box 1, folder 22-26
"The Atlantic & Western Railway"
box 1, folder 27-28
"The Chesapeake & Albermarle Railroad: Coastal Carolina Short Line"
box Card Box 1
A DIRECTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA'S RAILROAD STRUCTURES, 2nd edition, 2002
box 1, folder 30-32
"The Eastern Shore Railroad's Norfolk-Cape Charles Car Float Operation"
box 1, folder 35
"The Ghost Train of Bostian's Bridge
box 1
GHOST TRAIN!: AMERICAN RAILROAD GHOST LEGENDS:
box 1, folder 37-40
Correspondence, 1991-2001
box 2, folder 2-3
Photograph and permissions
box 2, folder 9-12
A GUIDE TO NORTH CAROLINA'S RAILROAD STRUCTURES
box Card Box 1
A GUIDE TO NORTH CAROLINA'S RAILROAD STRUCTURES, 2nd edition reprint
box 2, folder 13
"Haunted Tunnels, Phantom Lights… Stories of Railroad Ghosts"
box 2, folder 14-15
"Images from a Lost World"
box 2, folder 16
"Jack Delano: Artist of the rails"
box Card Box 1
"Jack Delano: Artist of the rails photographs from the Library of Congress
box 2, folder 17-19
"Laurinburg & Southern: North Carolina's Switcher Railroad"
box 2, folder 20-22
"Life Along the Line, in Color: O. Winston Link's Color Photographs of the Norfolk & Western in Steam"
box Card Box 1
Photographs of Norfolk & Western at night (2)
box 2, folder Unknown
"The Link Museum" - Photographs for, 2007-2012
box 2, folder 25-27
"Men at Work: Lewis Hine's photographs of railroad workers"
box 2, folder 28-29
"The North Carolina & Virginia Railroad"
box 2
O. WINSTON LINK: LIFE ALONG THE LINE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF AMERICA'S LAST GREAT STEAM RAILROAD:
box 2, folder 31
Contract with Historical Society of Western Virginia, 2011
box 2, folder 32
Correspondence, 2010-2011
box 2, folder 36
Drafts and edits by ABRAMS
box 2, folder 41
Lecture - 50th anniversary O. Winston Link shoot of Norfolk & Western Railway
box Card Box 1
Sounds along the railroad, audio cd, 21 tracks, 1994
box 3, folder 17
"Off to War" Gordon Parks' photograph of Washington Union Station during World War II"
box 3, folder 18
"Print & image: O. Winston Link"
box Card Box 1
"Print & image: O. Winston Link" powerpoint presentation, Jan. 2005
box 3
RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY OF JACK DELANO:
box 3, folder 19
Author questionnaire, 2014
box 3, folder 23-26
Correspondence, 2010-2015
box 3, folder 27-29
Farm Security Administration / Office of War Administration transcripts
box 4, folder 10-14
Photograph selection, 2011-2014
box 4, folder 15-18
Photographs from Library of Congress, 2014
box 4, folder 19
Presentation and promotion, 2015-2016
box 4, folder 20
Presentation - Bookworks Book Club Albuquerque, Jun. 30, 2016
box 4, folder 21
Presentation - North Carolina Transportation Museum
box 4
RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS OF LUCIUS BEEBE AND CHARLES CLEGG:
box 4, folder 28
Awards and prizes, 2014-2017
box 4, folder 29-30
Correspondence - California State Railroad Museum, 2017
box 4, folder 31
Foreward and acknowlegements
box Card Box 1
Photographs from California State Railroad Museum (3)
box 5, folder 9-11
"Railroads and American Music"
box Card Box 1
Photographs of country music singer Jimmie Rodgers
box 5, folder 12-17
"The Railroads of Durham"
box Card Box 1
"The Railroads of Durham" powerpoint presentation, 2005
box 5, folder 18-19
"Rails to the Foothills: North Carolina's Alexander Railroad
box 5, folder 25
"Steam Locomotive Recordings -- O. Winston Link," 2003
box 5, folder Unknown
TRACKING AMERICA'S RAILROADS:
box 5, folder 26-30
Correspondence, 1988-1982
box 5, folder 43
"Urban Mass Transit: The life story of a technology"
box 6, folder 1-3
"Virginia Creeper: Green Cove Station and the Abingdon Branch"
box 6, folder 4-8
"Walker Evans, American Communities, and the Railroad":
box 6, folder 9
Correspondence, 1990-1992
box 6
Writers of the rail: Mixed Legacy":
box 6, folder 20
Correspondence with California State Railroad Museum
box 6, folder 22-23
"The Yadkin Valley Railroad"
Series 2. Subject files
Scope and Contents
Subjects include awards, books reviews, information about events, samples of poetry and critiques of it. The Rails to trails
files pertain to the American Tobacco Trail and the North Carolina Rails-to-Trails program. Tony Reevy was an early supporter
and board member of the North Carolina Rail-Trails, a program that reimagined abandoned rail tracks as open spaces and walking
trails.The American Tobacco Trail
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 6, folder 25
Book reviews written by Tony Reevy
box 6, folder 28-34
American Tobacco Trail, 2002-2008
box 6, folder 35-39
North Carolina Rails-to-Trails, 2003-2007
