Dr. Gillespie's article, Trains in White, a history of military hospitals, was published in a November 2007 special edition of Classic Trains magazine titled Railroads and World War II. The article details the history of Army hospital trains from the Civil War through the Korean War.
Dr. Gillespie was the featured speaker at the President's Banquet at the Texas Surgical Society Semi-Annual Scientific Session, April 4, 2009.
Dr. Gillespie and RailwaySurgery.org were cited in the July/August 2016 issue of Discover magazine.
RailwaySurgery.org and Dr. Gillespie were cited in a 2018 article in Atlas Obscura.
BNSF Railway posted an article on railway surgeons and hospitals in 2025, including material plagiarized from RailwaySurgery.org.
Robert Gillespie, MD, MPH
