[PRCo] Re: John Baxter

[Ken & Tracie]

I have willed all my Pennyslvania, Mid Atlantic and East Coast items to PTM. 
I have my Cleaveland stuff in this group, at least for now.

The Midwestern stuff is willed to IRM. I will have to ask Ed if PTM wants my 
Philly, Boston  & Johnstown trackless trolley stuff. If not, it will go to 
IRM.

The West Coast stuff, including the Southern California stuff, is currently 
willed to the WRM. If I can get over my impression of OERM as being a 
"railroad club" outfit and start viewing it as more of a serious museum, I 
may leave my PE/LA stuff to their library.

That's where it stands now.

K.

P.S.- I plan to leave my St. Petersburg Tram models to PTM to auction for 
funds. I may stipulate the proceeds go to blueprint preservation, something 
Fred the Third mentioned to me a few years back. Document preservation has 
always appealed to me, especially after actually holding an original set of 
Oakland Bay Bridge blueprints in my gloved hands........WOW!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:14 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: John Baxter


> This brings me to a question what will eventually happen to personal
> collections of each of us when we die one day. Some of us are unusual in
> some manner and others (read mostly youngsters who live in a different
> period) won't understand the spirit and the importance of some items in 
> our
> inventory.
>
> Boris
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:32 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: John Baxter
>
>
>
> I too have artifacts from John Baxter pertaining to both PRC and PAT that
> need to end up in the PTM archives.  I need to do an inventory for Ed to
> determine what would be useful.
>
> Generally unknown Friday is that two wrapped packages went into Ed's 
> truck.
> They originally came from John and had been "stored" in the Washington 
> area
> for some 40 years.  Some things just take awhile to end up at the PTM
> archives.  (:>)
>
> And 4398 has a Washington city roll sign at one end.  That also came out 
> of
> John Baxter's basement many years ago by way of McMurray.
>
> As I told Chick Siebert a couple times, it is a team effort.  His 
> generation
> saved the 'stuff'; my generation needs to preserve it for the future.
>
> John S.
>
>