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Very interesting thread! BC's comment is the one that makses the most sense to me. Seems you have to have some very deep pockets and resources to start a museum from scratch in the current economy when donations are down. But supporting an existing group who shares your ideas is the fastest way to ...

Would you be offended if a train only ever filled 50% of its seats? How about 25%? Consider 11 stations starting in the suburbs. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J ---- Downtown Usually with most trains there's a prevailing direction of commute, and most people want to go that way. In a morning c...

A lot of rail museums have those. Most are built up from flatcars, with wood side railings and usually, canopies and canvas roofs. At the Cass Scenic, that's most of their fleet! I agree they are not historic in the least, but it cannot be denied people love them. Of all the museums I've seen, the c...

How about you? Yes, I have, for 4 very long years. I don't want to say which right now, but those who know me on here can back me up on it. I have been to enough board meetings that lasted 4-8 (yes, 8) hour meetings full of moronic comments, paper airplanes and general stupidity, all the while tryi...

Ever deal with, or sit on a board of directors for a non profit? Yes sir, the Western Railway Museum and the Southern Michigan Railroad, though I never missed a board meeting at any place I volunteered. WRM is a very mature board and until recently the chairman was Cameron Beach, who was very, very...

And used by even more museums with wicked cranial rectal inversion, mass amounts of stupidity and even more people that have no business being on a board of a non-profit, or operating organization. The reasons why IRM, WRM, OERM etc are so well off is because they are some of the early first genera...

I'm sick of Illinois having all the fun. I proposed a great railroad museum like Illinois Railway Museum awhile back, and people seemed to really like the idea. So I'd like to get people's opinions one more time, see what you think of the idea and whether you would get committed to it. AARR likes to...

It is my understanding railtrails can be returned to railroad service again and it has happened in other states on a few occasions. Yes. Some railroad lines (NOT ALL) don't own their land, but are built on an easement. Many easements have a reversion clause: when the rails are removed, the land goe...

Kellogg's has 16 of the former Penn Central 60' boxcars with the KELX lettering sitting out at the gate waiting to be sent to the scrappers. They are being shipped to Kalamazoo to be cut up but NS in their infinite wisdom wants to send them via Jackson, Detroit, Toledo, Elkhart and then north on th...

However, I do get impatient sometimes with questions like "Where did the Ann Arbor run?". With all the information available on the internet, and most young members being pretty internet savvy, a Google search of "Ann Arbor Railroad" could probably keep one busy for hours with all kinds of informat...

Which museum are you with, ryno4494? Which museums was the unit offered to?

Yes, and the scrappers were also selling parts to people off the engines. One guy got a whole electrical cabinet. They would have let the whole unit go too, but it was priced out of sight for railroad museums, and that's not just me talking, I checked with a large museum in Illinois and they said th...

Simply gutting an engine and stuffing it somewhere costs money as well. Crane costs, moving costs on rail, and where to put it. It can always be done, but it does not happen by itself. In this day and age, if something is deemed to have some historical significance, there often is some kind of effo...

From the look of the photos it looks like they are doing other units ahead of the 466. It takes more than a day to scrap an Alco. For 466, It ain't over til it's over. It would help an awful darn lot if somebody knew who was doing the scrapping and who owned the units, and could say on this forum. C...

I would think NS would only be thrilled to have more business. However, it's going to create an operating problem for the TLE&W. How do I describe this?... Right now, the FRA inspector comes, he looks around, he may seem very officious depending on the personality of the inspector. However mysteriou...

The California HSR plan was a boondoggle from the start - no surprise here. The first segment in the inland empire area didn't connect any major city points - leaving the major engineering (read: the mountain crossings) to later phases, where the major $Billions were to be. The article stated it ex...

I just found this. Apparently it's not nearly just railfan photographers.

http://americaswarwithin.org/articles/2 ... ct-america

[but nowadays they just won't handle it at all, least, not on its own wheels. Wrong. They ship them quite often, but they have to meet specific rules. I think we're talking about different things. You're thinking of commuter-rail coaches, post-WWII sealed window cars, or heavyweights retrofitted to...

There are several "Shared Assets" areas, I believe there's another one in NYC/NJ. It's more than paper... they actually revived the old railroad names "New York Central" and "Pennsylvania" for use in those areas. I believe NYC denotes CSX, and PRR denotes NS. In several places, CSX has a real, hones...

How humiliating. A rail car on a truck. Probably on it's way to become a diner somewhere. Oh heavens, no. It's definitely the best way to move transit equipment or historic equipment. If you ship that stuff by rail... in the old days, the railroads would damage it in transit... but nowadays they ju...