Walter Mason Camp was an American editor, author, railroad expert and historical researcher.
He was born in Camptown, Pennsylvania, and was educated at the Pennsylvania State College. From 1897 until his death, he was the editor of The Railway and Engineering Review (later renamed Railway Review) a railroad construction and engineering journal, published in Chicago. He was the author of the authoritative 1903 2-volume text Notes on Track, which continued to be a standard reference in the classroom and in the field for many years. Camp married Emeline L. F. Sayles in 1898. They had no children. He died unexpectedly at Kankakee, Illinois.
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