Jim Farrell
I met Ken Sanders at the 1977 annual meeting of the American Railway Development Association that he hosted in the Twin Cities during his tenure as President of ARDA. That was the first of many ARDA meetings that I attended during subsequent decades thus memories of that session remain vivid to this day. Following a lengthy period of time contact with Ken was renewed during his retirement years in Florida and he proudly announced his relocation to Ft. Myers. Most regrettably, during mid-January of 2018 I was in the adjacent city of Cape Coral, Florida with a friend and family and phoned Ken’s residence about a dozen times endeavoring to arrange a get together with Ken, never receiving an answer on his home telephone to any of those calls. Thinking that perhaps he had been away that weekend, after returning to my home on February 2nd a phone call to the management of his apartment revealed that Ken had passed away that day. Thought of Ken often during the years but, alas, our in-person reunion did not occur. My sincere condolences to his family on the passing of this longstanding friend.