Written by: William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief Luther Sigsbee Miller, long-time Editor-in-Chief of Railway Age died March 8, 2016. He was 89. Regarded as “the dean of American transportation journalists,” Miller came to Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. and Railway Age in February 1958 from The Institute for Railway Progress in Washington, D.C. He was named chief editor of Railway Age in 1966, and worked in that capacity until 2000, when he became Senior Consulting Editor. Among his many accomplishments, he co-founded, with the late Robert G. Lewis Lewis, International Railway Journal in 1960. Miller retired, at the age of 88, in May 2015. “For nearly 60 years, Luther Miller’s words, as well as those of his numerous colleagues, served to chronicle as well as influence an industry that changed and grew, and that today is flourishing,” said Railway Age Editor-in-Chief William C. Vantuono, who worked with Miller from 1992 until Miller’s retirement. “Suffice to say that Luther’s main legacy is a standard of excellence to which most journalists should aspire.” Continue reading...
