Ken, are you associated with the NYC-Elkhart facility to where I could ask some questions off list about a particular passenger car in that collection, please? DJE-KCMO
----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Hough To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:13 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: National New York Central Museum 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090113-0, 01/13/2009 Tested on: 1/13/2009 4:55:01 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com Ken Hough Photographic Repair Service Specializing in the Complete restoration of Deardorff View Cameras Est 1982 www.deardorffcameras.0catch.com 219 462 0281 --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090113-0, 01/13/2009 Tested on: 1/13/2009 5:13:23 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
