I was talking about the web site itself not being friendly to rail enthusiasts. Yeah it's ok for the tourists, but it doesn't tell me what I want to know.
Most of the steam railroad web-pages have a link for the real old-timer steam buffs that takes you to a listing of the equipment the railroad is operating, i.e. what kind of steam engines do they have and how many are operating ... Should I travel a thousand miles to get there if they don't have the equipment I'm interested in? What if they don't have anything that's not in the local transportation museum, which is about 950 miles closer? And without a link on the web site to let me see what equipment they have, how am I going to know if they do have something I'm interested in? From: "P. J. Alling" > No, it's a tourist attraction site. It's not that they discourage > visitors, but they're old fashioned, no digital computers in the age > of steam, (but I bet they'd love to have a Babbage Difference Engine > to display). > > John Sessoms wrote: > From: > "P. J. Alling" > >> The Valley Railroad, in Essex Connecticut. It's a working Steam >> Railway museum. They run a couple of Restored Steam Loco's and have a >> couple of Modern Chinese Steam Loco's, (one of which they run on the >> line as well, the other on display), (to the untrained eye, with most >> of the extra metal work removed they both look like a standard >> American type. This engine is sitting a the end of a line of cars all >> awaiting restoration, and as you can see, occasionally cannibalized >> for parts. >> >> http://www.essexsteamtrain.com/index.html > Not a real rail enthusiast site though, because they don't appear to > have any link to the equipment itself. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
