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                                                                     While so many children grow out of things
                                                                they are interested in by the time the reach
                                                                their teenage years, Bill’s love of trucks grew,
                                                                although now taking on a new medium: pho-
                                                                tos.  Fueled by a similar interest shared by his
                                                                mother, photography became his hobby of
                                                                choice.  Bill had an eye, even back then, for
                                                                big machines that moved.  This included rail-
                                                                roads and boats.
                                                                     He was never without at least one camera,
                                                                ever at the ready in case he came across some-
                                                                thing that caught his eye; and there usually
                                                                was.  He was meticulous and particular in his
                                                                tastes.  Over the years, he acquired more than
                                                                30,000 pictures and slides of trucks alone and
                                                                even more of trains and boats.










         Bill Bedell











































                RLCX 1063 Milw., WI 09-17-04                                                    by Bill Bedell


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