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For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
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  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
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New Historical Memoir “Railroad Family” Chronicles the Journey of a 19th Century American Railroad Family Through the Eyes of a Remarkable Woman

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A vivid new memoir, Railroad Family, takes readers on an unforgettable journey across the American heartland at the turn of the 20th century through the eyes of Katherine O’Dowd Dark, a woman born in 1886 in Richmond, Missouri, and raised in a family shaped by the railroads.

Edited and brought to publication by her granddaughter, Dr. Beverly Dark Graves, Railroad Family captures the joys, hardships, and resilience of life on the move. As the daughter of a white-collar railroad worker, Katie O’Dowd’s childhood was a patchwork of towns and tracks—each move dictated by her father’s work and the expanding reach of the railroad.

Through stories originally handwritten and typed by Katherine in her retirement years, readers are transported into her world from age three through young adulthood. These rich recollections detail the O’Dowd family’s experiences as they followed the rhythms of America’s rail expansion—offering a rare and authentic portrait of domestic life behind the grandeur of industrial progress.

After training as a milliner and running her own hat shop in Springfield, Missouri, Katherine married and became a mother of four. Widowed young, she ran a small hotel to support her family. Her stories, filled with honesty and charm, reflect both the harsh realities and tender moments of family life during a transformative era in U.S. history.

Discovered decades later by her granddaughter, Dr. Graves—a pediatrician and mother of three—these stories were painstakingly edited and compiled over the course of many years. With support from her sister, Katie Dark Hilton, Dr. Graves honors their grandmother’s legacy in this moving publication.

"Railroad Family is more than a memoir—it’s a window into a forgotten way of life,” said Dr. Graves. “My grandmother had an extraordinary gift for storytelling, and I’m honored to share her voice with the world.”

This remarkable book offers historians, families, and general readers alike a touching and personal perspective on what it meant to grow up in a railroad family during a pivotal era of American change.

Railroad Family is available now on Amazon in ebook and paperback:

Amazon.com: Railroad Family: The Childhood Story of Katie O'Dowd eBook : Dark, Katherine, Graves, Beverly, Hilton, Katie: Kindle Store

For media inquiries, interviews, or review copies, please contact:

Beverly Dark Graves, MD

darkgraves81@gmail.com

www.railroadfamily.com

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