[PRCo] Re: John Baxter

[Ken & Tracie]

Thanks, Ed.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:01 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: John Baxter


> PTM does Pennsylvania trackless material, but not Boston.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Ken &
> Tracie
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 4:21 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: John Baxter
>
> 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!
>
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> ----- 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
>
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>> 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
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>> ----- 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
>>
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>> 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.
>>
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