[PRCo] Re: John Baxter

[Ken & Tracie]

Actually, that's my plan, Ed.

But just in case something happens before then, I have my will. I revise it 
from time to time.

Incidently, is Cleveland considered "West Pittsburgh" in your eyes, or 
should my Cleveland stuff go to IRM?

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:04 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: John Baxter


> 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.
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