Museum Policy

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Greetings!

Still massive problems with ISP - unable to download email so
am using an independent source and responding this way as well.

Still, regardless of the practicality, the original revenue PCC
should still have been saved.  If we were to work on the basis
of practicality in saving trolleycars, the museums would not
exist.

Dave Hamley wrote an article for PTMs *Trolley Fare* chiding
PRMA for various decisions - saving RR equipment when the museum
was distinctly trolleycar and passing over PCC-100.  When I have
more time I shall look this article up - it has been mentioned
here before.

Wasn't the Clark PCC saved?

> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
> Car M-11, nee 100, may have
> been the first PCC to actually hit the streets in revenue >
service but it would not really have been a good museum > car.

--- Original Message ---
Kenneth and Tracie Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com> Wrote
on 
Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:55:02 +0000
 ------------------ 

: For example, what would PTM do with a standard gauge car :
from Oregon if a now deceased founding member had dragged : it
to Arden in 1955 simply because he liked it and had the
: political clout to acquire it? It wouldn't fit the PTM : "blueprint"
(nor its rails), yet it would be a tie to the : Museum's earliest
days.

And New Orleans 832 does not fit the Western-PA blueprint, either,
yet it runs continuously.  And of the 3-cars which went to the
Museum  u-n-d-e-r  t-h-e-i-r  o-w-n  p-o-w-e-r  --  M1, West
Penn 832, 3756  --  ONLY the latter operates but then not at
all times.  It seems that equipment outside of Western PA does
the bulk of operating - New Orleans and Phlipadelphia!!

Jim Holland




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