[PRCo] Re: John Baxter

[Herb Brannon]

I thought PTM wanted to be a repository for all US transit interests ???
"Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:  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!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Cefer" 
To: 

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" 
> To: 

> 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.
>
> 








Herb Brannon
   
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