Train enthusiast-turned-docent elected president of Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society

Phil Cassou (left) and Mark Freiberg are seen March 4 at The Boardwalk shopping center in Tiburon. Freiberg has been elected president of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society’s governing board, succeeding Cassou, who held top board roles for much of the past three decades. (Tyler Callister / The Ark)

Mark Freiberg has been obsessed with trains since he can remember. He isn’t sure exactly when it started.

“It must have started in the womb somehow, I’m not sure how,” he says. “I always had multiple train sets when I was a kid and just retained that interest throughout my life.”

That fixation eventually led Freiberg and his younger brother — “also similarly afflicted with the trains bug” — to visit Tiburon after hearing about the Railroad & Ferry Depot Museum. He moved to town in 2016, after marrying his wife, Diane, and settled just across the street from the museum.

“And so I had no excuse as a railroad aficionado to not get involved,” he says. He became a docent about nine years ago. Now he leads the organization that operates it.

Freiberg was unanimously elected president of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society’s governing executive committee at the board’s Jan. 13 meeting. He succeeds Phil Cassou, who served as president for four years in the early 2000s and most recently for eight years. Cassou will continue as vice president.

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