JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – William E. Griffin Jr., 71, retired personnel director of the Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac and later CSX, died Tuesday. A railroad employee for more than 30 years, Griffin was also a rail historian who wrote several books about railroads in his native Virginia and predecessors of CSX.
Among the titles by Griffin were “Virginia Railroads, Vol. 1;” “Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad’s Passenger Service, 1937-1973;” “Atlantic Coast Line: Standard Railroad of the South;” “Seaboard Air Line Railway: The Route of Courteous Service;” “The Atlantic & Danville Railway Company: the Railroad of Southside Virginia;” and “Seaboard Coast Line Family Lines Railroad 1967-1986.”
Griffin was a native of Alberta, Va., and U.S. Army veteran.
Bill will be missed. His books were all very well written and informative. One of the few authors in any genre that I enjoyed enough to obtain the complete body of his work.