Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1951, Dutch’s interest in railroads was ignited after a family trip on the New York Central when he was three years old. Prior to his sophomore year of high school, Dutch’s family moved to the Chicago area, making it possible for him to enjoy pre-Amtrak passenger trains there. After earning an undergraduate degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1975, Dutch spent the next 11 years teaching school in Wisconsin and Wyoming; he also spent a year working on a Master’s degree from Utah State University in Logan, Utah. In 1986, he and his family moved from Wyoming to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he worked to earn an MBA in Transportation and Marketing from the University of Tennessee.
Hired by Norfolk Southern in 1988, Dutch spent the next 31 years working in various departments that included Economics, Metals Marketing, Car Management, Transportation, Short Line Marketing, andCoal Marketing. After retirement in 2019, Dutch and his wife, Pamela Hale, moved from Norfolk to Elon College, North Carolina, where he spends part of his time working as a station attendant at the Amtrak station in Burlington, NC.
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This program originally aired on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 7:00 pm Central Time (8pm Easter, 6pm Mountain, and 5pm Pacific).
