He is a former editor of the Layout Design Special Interest Group's Layout Design Journal and has had articles appear in hobby magazines like Model Railroader as well as in international publications of architecture, design and education. He is a member of the NMRA and the Operations SIG, and he participates in the Yahoo! Rail Marine forum. His current prototype and HO modeling interest is the Hoboken Shore Railroad and the connecting Erie Railroad as well as the other railroads and pocket yards of New York Harbor in 1959. He has also modeled in N scale, and he is currently working on a contemporary European Z scale layout for his wife Stephanie.