At its Sept. 20-23 Fall Conference at Exporail in Montreal, HeritageRail Alliance will give out its annual Railway Preservation awards. Now is your chance to let us know about deserving projects and persons. We only recognize projects that are substantially completed. Here are the award categories:
Significant achievement, Steam locomotive
Significant achievement, Diesel locomotive
Significant achievement, Electric car
Significant achievement, Passenger car
Significant achievement, Freight car
Significant achievement, Non-revenue car
Significant achievement, Infrastructure
Significant achievement, Archives and scholarship
Friend of Railway Preservation (generally goes to funders and sponsors)
William J. Purdie Award for Youth Involvement
Lifetime Achievement
Jim Wrinn Award for the Year's Biggest Preservation Story

You can respond on RyPN, or email me at aaronmona@aol.com
Aaron Isaacs, Awards Committee Chair
HeritageRail Alliance

Thank you for the opportunity.

I would like to nominate the East Broad Top Foundation in the Significant Achievement - Steam Locomotive category for restoring to service EBT Baldwin built 2-8-2, #16 which had been out of service since 1955.

She is now running 5 days a week pulling 3 excursion trains a day and performing splendidly.

Ross Rowland

New England Steam Corporation for their ongoing restoration of Maine Central 4-6-2 #470.
This locomotive came within a hair's breadth of being scrapped, and is currently being revived from certain death.