Chris Dill
Chris Dill is a native North Dakotan who attended the Universities of North Dakota and Kansas, receiving both BA and MA degrees in anthropology from KU.
He worked on various archaeological projects from 1968 to 1973, and as a Historic Site Supervisor, Archaeologist, and Museum Director for the State Historical Society of North Dakota from 1973 to 1999, Chris became Superintendent of the Greeley Museums in 1999 where he manages 71 structures on 20 acres at four locations with a staff of 12 permanent employees, 19 seasonals and interns, a volunteer corps of 500, and an annual budget of just over $1,000,000, plus grants for historic preservation surveys, building renovations, and exhibits.
The Museums served over 46,000 people in 2004, providing over 51,000 hours of education to children, and opened the new year-round Greeley History Museum in 2005
Chris does community service through the United Way, Kiwanis of the Rockies, and the Weld County Humane Society.
He manages the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museum's "Museum Assistance and Services Team," and completes grant reviews for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Chris also works for the American Association of Museums as a Museum Assessment Program (MAP) on-site reviewer, and as an Accreditation Program visiting team participant.
He is married to Roiann Baird and lives in Greeley, Colorado, with a variety of cats, rabbits and guinea pigs.
He likes single malt scotch, often wears a kilt, reads fantasy, science fiction, and short stories, and loves all forms of music except Bix Beiderbecke and Hip-Hop.
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Steve Palmer
Steve Palmer is a Colorado native growing up in the northern part of the state.
As a child he would watch the Great Western Railway (GWR) EMD SW engines work the strings of sugar beet cars, tank cars, air slide hoppers, and coal cars, for the sugar factories of the parent company, Great Western Sugar Co.
Going to work with his dad at the factories, Steve would watch those little switchers and the steam powered dinky engines work the yards of beet cars.
When Steve's dad got transferred to Chicago they lived across the street from the CB&Q mainline going into downtown.
Steve has been associated with the Denver, Greeley and Tahoe Railway for over a decade and is a major contributor to the model railroad programs for both layouts.
Dave Trussell has been know to give Steve "special assignments" like painting over 200 HO scale seagulls-Good Times!
Steve is on the Board of Directors for the Museum.
Steve would like to say that he feels honored and privileged to be working on this great project, with some of the best model railroaders to make Dave's dream come true, this will be one of the best model railroads in the country.
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