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| Author: | Angie Morefield [ Fri Jun 29, 2001 12:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Railway Exhibition Museum, Covington, KY |
Don't know if any of you have had a chance to get down to the Railway Exhibition Museum in Covington, Ky yet, but my husband and I spent a good portion of last Wednesday just rambling around the place and shooting a lot of film. It is in a very out of the way place and a little hard to find but Mapquest is very reliable.The phone number is:(859-491-7245) and the address is 315 W.Southern Ave.. They are open Saturday and Sunday but the lovely gentlemen doing restoration let us wander around on Wednesday anyhow. These folks need a lot of help and I plan to start volunteering sometime in the next few weeks. They said there was a paintbrush that would fit my hand nicely. It seems to be staffed by a bunch of "old railroad fellas". Can't wait to spend some quality time hearing some stories, hope they'll share their memories with me. On another note, things seem to proceed sort pf haphazardly. Looks like they've sort of over aquisitioned. Lots of cabooses, (cabeese?), maybe they could be talked into a trade for those endangered ALCOs. I remember someone was looking for Budd cars and they seem to have quite a few of those.The saddest piece was an old wooden caboose that is way out back and well beyond even the thought of restoration. I hate to think that the future of these artifacts remains solely on the shoulders of these nice old men. They're doing their best but climbing ladders in the hot sun is no job for someone 83 years old. Please, folks, go take a look, The E unit is waiting for replacement of the side plates that were stripped off before AMTRAK sold her. She's sitting with one side tarped but her two 12 cylinder engines are still there and , I'm told, in good shape. One of the gentlemen was working on replacing what he described as "the disappearing steps" on what appeared to be a batttered old observation car. So much rust, so few hands. Not all the equipment is so bad off. There are several real nice locos, some well restored passenger cars, and a handful of well cared for cabooses. I don't think it ever hit home to me how monumental a task it is to restore these treasures. Usually I see a piece here and a piece there and they are works in progress. All I could think while walking through this yard was "How are they ever going to get it all done before it's beyond restoration?" I look at the situation now and figure maybe even one more set of hands may make a difference. Hust Train Crazy, -Angie Ladypardus@cs.com |
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