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 Post subject: Random Preservation Projects
PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:41 pm 

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Tallulah Falls gas electric RPO
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikewoodfin/3799453520/
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PRR 180 / 8973 "William Penn" at Camp Atterbury, IN
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/4314400181/
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B&M Depot, Spring Haven (Lake Winnipesaukee) NH
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoman82/3101123867/
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Badger Fish Car (Mid Continent contract job)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lbrosenow/3085744518/
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West Penn 728, a preserved interurban car in an obscure, private collection
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lionel682/3625731812/
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Single truck open car (maybe from Chicago?), restored as Waupaca Electric Express car
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11741544@N05/1317470821/in/set-72157608420618544/
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Syracuse Peter Witt trolley 1036
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnynrhs_editor/3792202173/
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White Line Truck from San Diego
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr38/2741785165/
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Restoration of things starting with E, F and G in Lebanon NJ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarkwestfield/2225913999/
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Cuban Narrow Gauge
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11574296@N08/3159113893/
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P&LE combination car, West Newton, PA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjb19772009/3454750688/
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Stomach ache. Eureka Springs, AR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reluctant_paladin/1419613944/
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Central RR of NJ coach 1009, to be moved to Ringoes (as of last year)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigpistol/3273714170/
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York Durham Heritage Railway
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lopix/69791106/
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Lisbon, Portugal streetcar returned from scrapyard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tram_sintra_atlantico/2334266108/
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Wycomb, PA Train Station
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29250615@N08/3275882106/
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Nickel Plate 587 in Noblesville, IN
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3498880415/in/set-72157617666814028/
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ATSF 2926, Albuquerque, NM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/killbox/3961902756/
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Inside the Cedar Rapids
http://www.flickr.com/photos/picspicspics/2385391014/
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 Post subject: Re: Random Preservation Projects
PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:36 pm 

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Your stomache ache is a fascinating car, and one I tried without success to bring back to the Savannah museum several years ago, before its back was so close to broken.

It is of Central of Georgia heritage, built in 1887 (if I recall correctly) and is a Jim Crow with a center smoking section. The documentation of its disposition to a shortline during the war with government approval is still extant. It has two WCs in either compartment, one a later plywood addition, which probably indicates its use in Alabama as AL had a state law requiring seperate sex washrooms in both white and colored sections. One end had the 3 shank coupler left.......

Missed opportunity to preserve something in very early and almost original configuration, and to interpret the Jim Crow era where it wasn't being done.

I think this car was preserved by Arthur LaSalle at ARE in Hillyard, FL back in the 1960's - if not, then one just like it, with green velour and brass match strikers in the smoker. very dim memories of visiting it in 1964 in a overgrown field in Hillyard with a 0-4-0T, narrow gage 0-4-0 hulk, and some other stuff.

That Rock Island steel diner with the arched windows would make a nice project car.

dave

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