[PRCo] Re: West PENN 700's WE HAVE

[Fred Schneider]

There is a problem with letting the public see the unrestored junk ... they
will be less willing to contribute to restoration if everything looks like
junk.   One car for the public to see with a plea for money is fine.  Twenty or
thirty of them is counter productive;  it is like saying, "Please give you
dollars to someone else who can put them to much better use."

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> It will be available for viewing once it's inside the new blimp hangar this
> summer.  All the tarps will be removed prior to moving the cars, I'm told.
> The public will be admitted to this building, too, though not as regularly
> as the members!
>
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> Subject: [PRCo] Re: West PENN 700's WE HAVE
>
> I think everything should be put out on display, regardless of visual or
> operating condition.  Maybe they have to be behind curtains to shield them
> from the general public, but I suspect a lot of you, like me, look at a
> disintegrating hulk of a streetcar body the same way art historians look at
> a broken up Greek statue.  I haven't seen 739 WP car since it was moved out
> of the barn and put under tarp, and I'd hate to wait until it gets a new
> paint job.