User talk:J60sheridan

It is interesting to know that your father did not like to be called Abe. However he is well respected in the model railroading community as Abe Mercer. For example in the 1953 Model Railroad Equipment Corp. Catalog he writes an article "Building Locomotive Kits" by Abe Mercer, The Penn Line. He himself is using the less formal "Abe" rather than "Albert M.", while other model railroad pioneers writing in the same issue are listed as John N. Tyler, Charles A. Pittman, Jr., Charles A. Penn, etc. However why did you partially formalize Bob Faust's name to Robert Faust, leaving out his middle initial I? Mr. Faust always told people to call him "Bob" and signed letters that way. The reason that this matters is that if a researcher googles "Abe Mercer" or "Bob Faust", they will get results that lead to Penn Line, but if they google "Albert Mercer" or "Robert Faust" their achievements are not easily found.