Help me find a Jack White article on restoration vs. replica

Erik Ledbetter · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 1:00 pm

Friends--

I need your help tracing an article. I have a strong memory of having read a very good article by John H. White, Jr. (Smithsonian curator or transportation emeritus and all-around Towering Figure) in which he applied a version of the Department of the Interior Standards for Historic Preservation to railroad rolling stock--in particular, to try to nail down the difference between stabilization, conservation, restoration and replication in a railroad context. I think this was in L&RP.

Ring a bell to anyone? Can you give me a citation?

Thanks,

Erik

Howard P. · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:38 pm

Yes, it was L&RP, and the title was "Facadism: Is this Really Preservation?". L&RP #15, July-August 1988.

Oh, does that ever seem so long ago....

Howard P.

kalbrandt · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:40 am **Posts:** 88

An earlier piece on the topic:
John H. White, Jr., "The Railway Museum: Past, Present, and Future," Technology and Culture 14, no. 4 (Oct., 1973): 599-613.

Erik Ledbetter · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 3:22 pm

Howard P. wrote:

Yes, it was L&RP, and the title was "Facadism: Is this Really Preservation?". L&RP #15, July-August 1988.

Oh, does that ever seem so long ago....

Howard P.

Bingo! Thanks, Howard.

Erik Ledbetter · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:11 pm

kalbrandt wrote:

An earlier piece on the topic:
John H. White, Jr., "The Railway Museum: Past, Present, and Future," Technology and Culture 14, no. 4 (Oct., 1973): 599-613.

Thanks, Keith--this is a big help, too. Much obliged to you.

Schuylkill Valley · **Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:45 pm

I came across this on a search for what your looking for.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3102446

Len.

KevinO · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:59 pm **Posts:** 114

Does anyone happen to have a copy of that L&RP article? Being a historic preservation major I'm interested in seeing how it differs from the regular standards.

Thanks,
Kevin

sc 'doc' lewis · **Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:02 pm

Don't know what Pentrex's lawyers would have to say about the copying of a complete article--copyright law and all...but a copy of the whole entire issue mentioned can be purchased for three dollars and shipping at http://www.railpub.com.

The usual disclaimer...I have no interest in the above referenced link other than being a satisfied customer in completing my collection of L&RP issues.