It is better now. But something I forgot to mention in my past
post is most museums are NOT for railfans.
We makeup a tiny portion of Museum visitors. Ask any curator who
they want to attract as visitors it ain't us.
I've got 8 yrs experience at a RR museum and railfans were more
bothersome than the general public.
By the way keep the Lagging and Jacket OFF an outdoor stored
engine. The asbestos just soaks up rain and rusts a boiler away
from the outside. The Museum of Science and industry in Chicago
had a ATSF 2900 class on display for decades. No lagging or
Jacket. IRM says it's a great boiler and will be relatively easy to do a
restoration on the boiler.
Ken
All --
I was at the subject museum about 12 years ago. There was some
nice stuff
there, in particular a PRR GG1 and a NYC L3 Mohawk. At the time
the Mohawk
lacked its boiler jacket, but the headlight was permanently on.
But it certainly was an anemic place with respect to NYC equipment.
The
first thing I saw coming south through town, approaching the ex-NYC
crossing, was a string of two or three two-tone grey NYC passenger
cars.
But closer inspection showed that they were Erie cars that had been
repainted.
Inside, in the gift shop, I could find no NYC-oriented T-shirts, but I
did
pick up a National NYC Museum golf shirt. And there wasn't a
single
NYC-oriented book in their book section.
Maybe it's better now...?
Dick Karnes
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