About This Site

My name is Ron (Ronnie) Bearden.  This site delves into the various areas of my interest.

My favorite past-time is N scale model railroading.  I published my first article in 1987 and am now approaching 100 articles.  Most of my writing has been for N-Scale Magazine.

I am a Global Methodist pastor serving in the Alabama / Emerald Coast Conference.

I have a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University.  My primary research interests are Rhetoric, Narrative, and Preaching.  I have served as an Adjunct Faculty member of several schools, including, Spring Arbor University,  Huntingdon College,  Brewton-Parker College.  This area of the website is primarily to provide support materials for the courses taught.

About the name- U18B- most people don’t know what that means.  The U18B is a small locomotive made by General Electric (that orange locomotive in the header is one).  For some reason, I have always been drawn toward this locomotive.  I saw many of them from 1987 until around the mid-1990s when CSX began retiring them.   But more than that- it reminds me of God.  He loves small things that most people don’t value.