[PRCo] Re: M454

[Fred Schneider]

Strange that railfans have to justify why they scrap a car in a  
museum years after it was done.

Should it not be sufficient to say, "Car was scrapped at PTM."    No,  
because that would create a firestorm from the same kind of people  
that think every PCC on the planet should be saved.

I wonder how many cars that we've preserved will be scrapped in the  
next 25 years?   Next 50 years?   Next 100 years?   We can start with  
a group of PCCs slowly being converted to a ferrous deposit off the  
interstate east of Columbus, Ohio.   And then there is one man's  
museum in Uniontown Pa filled with Pittsburgh cars ... another rust  
deposit.   And next in my mind is the Seashore organization which one  
famous tourist guidebook called "a junkyard masquerading as a  
museum," which has more cars than they could possibly overhaul in the  
next 1,000 years.   And then there is the group that wants to restore  
trolley service in Brooklyn ... they still have a web site but I  
thought the longshoreman destroyed the pier on which the cars were  
resting in an argument over whether they or the union had superiority.

Derrick knows my feelings from the day he came to me complaining that  
Birmingham, Alabama, had a great steel museum and Pittsburgh didn't  
and something had to be done about that.   I suggested that perhaps  
there wasn't enough money for a lot of steel museums and maybe he  
should give his money to the Sloss Furnace in Birmingham.   I'll  
admit, it is better than the equivalent in Rankin.   Been to both.

Until we change the way we think about educating our offspring, not  
sure there is much we can do.


On Dec 25, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> It was scrapped for parts at PTM.  The body was beyond economical  
> repair,
> especially since we have another car from the same series.
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> Boris
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> Subject: [PRCo] M454
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> What was the end of M454?
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