Smithsonian transportation curator Withuhn dies at 75

Washington

WILLIAM Withuhn, a licensed locomotive engineer who, during his 27 years as transportation curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, could have been called America's official train collector, died on June 29 at his home in Burson, California. He was 75.

The cause was heart disease, said his wife, Gail Mr Withuhn.