As I said,.poorly, it's a tourist oriented website and attraction. Why don't you drop them an e-mail with suggestions?
John Sessoms wrote: > 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. >> > > > -- Remember, it’s pillage then burn. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
