Also, this may or may not be of help. There was an model railroader I met years ago who was building an HO model of the Great Western in his barn in Wyoming. I met him around the fall of 1978 when I was still on the BR&W. He had just came from a trip to Strasburg to gleam info out of the RRMofPA on the GW steam locomotives built by Baldwin, and also photograph the 90. The 60 on the BR&W (also ex GW) was out of service due to a bad flue at the time, so he spent the afternoon taking photos and measurements of her at the Ringoes enginehouse. I was working with John Kahn of the BR&W at the time on the 60 when this guy (I don't remember his name, but he worked for the D&RGW then later the UP) started to talk to us about his project. He had notebooks full of info, drawings & photographs of the Great Western in the back of his car, long with a few boxes of photos including a shoebox of in service photos of 90. He said he bought anything he could find on the Great Western. At one time he almost bought one of the GW 0-4-0ts used in the beet sugar mills. If this guy is still around, he may have a snapshot or two of the 90 on it's trip to the east. Then again, from my own experiences in the preservation world, there was always someone with a camera following us around on our journeys (that is, the train crews on the New Hope & Ivyland and the Black River & Western, and myself back in the 1970's) . Every time we pull out of the yard with a train, there was always someone with either a super 8, tape recorder, and camera. Yet, I can never find anyone who has any photos / films / tapes from this time. Have fun – David Notarius, London UK, ex NH&I and BR&W in the 1970's.
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