Beth Anne Keates, an industrious, dedicated, and passionate volunteer for the West Chester Railroad Heritage Association, with the encouragement of her father Donald P. van Krieken, has had a lifelong interest in rail transportation. Her husband, Brian, and sons, Andrew and Jacob, also share that interest. Kenneth C. Springirth, 1962 graduate of Drexel Institute of Technology and author of a series of books on streetcar and railroad lines, has had a long time interest in rail history as his father was a streetcar motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a streetcar motorman in Washington, D.C.
