[PRCo] Re: PRC 4398

[Fred Schneider]

I agree with you 100%.   And if those who had never seen it could have, they would have understood too.  A month or so I brushed up against part of the original framing members under the car and and chunk of steel (better described as ferrous oxide) fell to the shop floor.   It scares me what 3756 must look like under the skin.

fws

AProchek at aol.com wrote:

> 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.