[PRCo] Re: PRC 4398

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to all

Ed as usual is right.

PTM policy is correct.  Fix them and then run them

Let today's generation enjoy the vehicles.   There may
be an exception here and there...Pres Lincoln's funeral;
car might be of such historical value.

But make it possible to see and ride.   I am waiting
to ride a West Penn 700

Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

>Mr. White also believes that you should restore trolley cars and then not
>run them again.  His address to an ARM convention about three decades ago,
>in which he espoused this concept, provoked me to write the then-editor of
>the ARM newsletter a definite nasty-gram; I don't know if my displeasure was
>ever shared with Mr. White.
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>(Unrelated): I'll be away until the 6th.
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>Ed
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>The railroad historian White (William?) would say this restoration is
>"facadism", by which he meant replacing so much of the original parts that
>nothing much original is left.  To him I gather than is a bad thing to be
>avoided, but really, what else could be done with 4398?  If it was some
>ancient antiquity that shed some new light on an ancient civilization I
>would understand leaving it alone.  But its a trolley car.  We know how they
>were built and have many nearly original examples around.  Its meant to run,
>and now it will again.  keep up the good work, I look forward to 832 as
>well.
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