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Anthony Puzzilla is a retired Federal Government employee after 43 years of service. He is now a full-time writer, as well as a rail fan and model train lover. He is a member of the Jersey Central Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Historical Society, and the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society. Mr. Puzzilla has already published two “Images of Rail” books for Arcadia Publishing. The first, entitled The Western Maryland Railroad, was published in 2015 and the second, entitled New Jersey Central’s Blue Comet, was published in 2017.

Images of Rail
Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal
By Anthony G. Puzzilla
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Hope Triumphs Over Chaos
The La Plata Tornado of April 28, 2002
By Anthony G. Puzzilla
The devastating F4 La Plata, Maryland tornado of April 28, 2002, was a significant event for several reasons. First, tornadoes along the Atlantic coast are not common. It tracked across the Chesapeake Bay almost to the Atlantic Ocean. Next, a tornado of this magnitude is extremely rare in the Northeast region. It is only the third to have occurred in the state of Maryland. La Plata has had two, in 1926 and 2002, and one occurred in Frostburg, Maryland in 1998. Also, The La Plata Tornado of April 28th was the strongest ever to strike Maryland, and the second strongest to ever hit the Northeast region.