Bob Diamond (engineer)
{{short description|American engineer}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Bob Diamond
|image = Bob Diamond engineer.jpg
|caption = Diamond in 1982
|birth_name = Robert Stephen Turin
|birth_date = {{birth date|1959|10|06}}
|birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|2021|08|21|1959|10|06}}
|occupation = Engineer
}}
Robert Stephen Turin (October 6, 1959 – August 21, 2021), also known as The Trolley Man, was an American engineer.
Life and career
Diamond was born in Brooklyn.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/nyregion/bob-diamond-dead.html|title=Bob Diamond, the 'Tunnel King' of Brooklyn, Dies at 61|work=The New York Times|first=Clay|last=Risen|date=August 28, 2021|access-date=July 4, 2024}} He was an engineer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-downtown-seeking-a-tunnel-entr/150640235/|title=Downtown / Seeking A Tunnel Entrance|work=Newsday|location=New York, New York|date=November 6, 1991|access-date=July 4, 2024|page=33|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/nyregion/a-trolley-enthusiast-on-de-blasios-streetcar-plan-sign-me-up.html|title=A Trolley Enthusiast on de Blasio's Streetcar Plan: Bring Me Aboard|work=The New York Times|first=Corey|last=Kilgannon|date=February 4, 2016|access-date=July 4, 2024}}
In 1980, Diamond gained national attention after rediscovering an abandoned 19th-century Atlantic Avenue train tunnel{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pasEEAAAQBAJ|title=Underground Cities: Mapping the Tunnels, Transits and Networks Underneath Our Feet|page=55|first=Mark|last=Ovenden|publisher=Frances Lincoln|date=September 8, 2020|isbn=9781781318942|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4X98EAAAQBAJ|title=Bizarre Brooklyn: Stories of the Tragic, Macabre and Ghostly|page=40|first=Allison Huntington|last=Chase|date=2022|publisher=History Press|isbn=9781467152396|via=Google Books}} in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1982, Diamond founded the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/11/nyregion/trolley-lover-rolls-closer-to-a-dream.html|title=Trolley Lover Rolls Close To a Dream|first=Edward|last=Levine|date=May 11, 1997|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 4, 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/nyregion/thecity/a-desire-named-streetcar.html|title=A Desire Named Streetcar|first=Jennifer|last=Bleyer|work=The New York Times|date=January 15, 2006|access-date=July 4, 2024}} a nonprofit organization.
Diamond died{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2021/08/24/brooklyn-transit-booster-and-tunnel-aficionado-bob-diamond-dies-at-62/|title=Brooklyn transit booster and tunnel aficionado Bob Diamond dies at 62|work=New York Daily News|first=Clayton|last=Guse|date=August 24, 2021|access-date=July 4, 2024}} on August 21, 2021, at the age of 61.
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Category:Engineers from Brooklyn
Category:20th-century American engineers
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