Further Reading
- No author. Who’s Who in Railroading – United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba – 1930 Edition. New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1930, p. 124.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Seventy Years of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Available on the Web at www.wpi.edu/Academics/Library/Archives/SeventyYears/page342.html.
- WPI Journal. "People of the Century: Building Iron Rails." Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Spring, 1988. Available on the Web at: www.wpi.edu/News/Journal/Spring98/rails.html. Ironically, four of the five WPI civil engineering graduates listed in this article are early veterans of the Northern Pacific!
- Dorsey, Michael W. "Maintaining a Lifeline." WPI Transformations. Discusses NP veterans Darling and Benjamin O. Johnson's experiences as Americans working to maintain the Trans-Siberian Railroad during World War I. Available on the Web at: www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2005Winter/timecapsule.html.
- Personal papers from Darling's time in Russia circa World War I are held by the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Official papers as chief engineer of the Northern Pacific Railway are held by the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Darling, William Lafayette |
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| Short description | |
| Date of birth | March 24, 1856 |
| Place of birth | Oxford, Massachusetts |
| Date of death | 1938 |
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