Mark William Hemphill was the editor of ''
Trains'' magazine from September, 2000, until July, 2004. Prior to joining ''Trains'' he served as assistant editor of HyRail Production's ''
CTC Board
''Railroads Illustrated'', formerly known as ''CTC Board'', was a monthly magazine, published by White River Productions (WRP), devoted to railroad photography. WRP purchased ''CTC Board'' magazine from Hundman Publishing after the May 2006 issue ...
'' magazine.
Mr. Hemphill attended the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the
University of Colorado at Denver, earning degrees in history from each.
Hemphill was the first ''Trains'' editor to have worked in the railroad industry, having started Mountain Diesel Transportation in Denver with
Dale Sanders
Dale Sanders, FRS (born 13 May 1953) was Director of the John Innes Centre, an institute for research in plant sciences and microbiology in Norwich, England.
Education
Sanders was educated at The Hemel Hempstead School. He gained a Bachelor o ...
, also of ''CTC Board''. He later joined the
Kansas City Southern Railway in
Shreveport, Louisiana
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, as a
train dispatcher.
From 2005 until 2007, Hemphill was the Senior Consultant, Rail, for the
Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, an arm of the
US Department of State. In this capacity he assisted the Director General of the
Iraqi Republic Railways
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Network
IRR comprises of . IRR has one international interchange, with Chemins de Fer Syr ...
in the reconstruction of Iraq’s national railroad system.
As of 2011, Mr. Hemphill was a director of railroad consulting services for HDR Engineering, Inc.
In 2019 Hemphill left HDR to work for
Rio Grande Pacific Corporation heading the
Uinta Basin Rail construction project.
He is the author of one book, ''Union Pacific: Salt Lake Route''. (Erin
nt. Boston Mills Press, 1995.)
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American magazine editors
University of Illinois alumni
American people in rail transportation
Rail transport photographers
University of Colorado Denver alumni