[PRCo] Re: John Baxter

[Edward H. Lybarger]

There will be other opinions on this subject, but my experience leads me to
say "Get it where you want it to be while you are still lucid and in
relatively good health."  If you wait until you're dead, it may not get
there. If it's in a good repository, you can always go visit your stuff, and
both parties will be happy.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Boris
Cefer
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:14 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
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.