Dorothy R. Scheele
Dorothy R. Scheele, the creator of the Friendship Train web site, has been researching and writing about the Friendship and Merci Trains since about 2000. She became interested in the trains while visiting the Arizona Capitol Museum in Phoenix. Several of her articles have appeared in journals and magazines in Pennsylvania, California, and Nevada.
Ms Scheele's e-mail address is dsearch100c@aol.com
This site is intended as a companion site to the French Merci Train website, www.mercitrain.org, which has complete information on the Merci boxcars. Ms Scheele and that website's founder, Mr. Earl Bennett, have been exchanging information for many years.
Ms Scheele's print publications can be found in the following journals:
Lancaster County Magazine [Pennsylvania] Nov 2001
Pennsylvania Heritage Spring 2003
California Territorial Quarterly Summer 2003
Western Pennsylvania History Fall 2003
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly Winter 2003
Los Tulares [California] March 2004
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