John Sery
(Production Consultant)

     John Sery a lifelong railfan, was born and raised in the Washington DC area and has been a resident Silver Spring since 1958. John started his film career by helping his father make the family’s home movies. After studying film production at the University of Maryland, John worked for over 25 years at the American Film Institute at the John F Kennedy Center, most recently as the Institute’s Film Booker and Technical Manager. John had many interesting experiences while at the institute of which one of the most memorable was helping the Department of the Navy to assemble a film festival and being granted a jet ride with the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron. Recently John has worked as an audio-visual consultant and done archival research work at the National Archives. He was actively involved with the restoration of the Silver Spring B&O station and the art deco Silver Theatre. John is a board member of the Potomac Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. His wife, Patricia is from Pittsburgh PA. They have two children, Justine, 16 and Stephen 18 (who is also an avid rail buff and spends many weekends chasing and photographing trains with his dad).