Really? Is it too much to ask that you could at least modify the headline you put with the verbatim newspaper cites to at least tell us which city the Museum is in, or even which state?

Here I was thinking it was the PRR Reuben Wells in Indianapolis.....

Aw c'mon, Sandy. This forum is an informal site. There's no need to be pedantic.

Sloan

Found photos of the display here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29574758@N00/3747624535/

Looks like an Alco RS-3 or similar, lightweight passenger car and Pennsy caboose (N4 maybe).

It's an RSC-2: check the C-C trucks.

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed already a while back when this came up:
http://www.uticaod.com/news/x1594963879 ... ric-trains

It looks like they had worked things out a bit (ie, the fence), but then that fell apart.

It's a real shame, that PRR cabin car has some real interpretive merit for someone who wanted to demonstrate the evolution of Pennsy caboose design (being the bridge between the N5s and the N8s, I think).

Is the Children's Museum nuts??? That train display is what puts that place on the map and is what I am sure excites many youngsters to want to go there. The display is very tastefully done and works so well with the building. Looks like what is needed is some landscaping around the train to really make the place stand out as a community asset.

what is the story with the F unit, steam locomotive and passenger cars parked behind the museum?

The F-unit and passenger cars are Adirondack Scenic. The Steam Locomotive is NYC 0-6-0 6721 which is diplayed by the U&MV chapter NRHS. Seems like the childrens museum equipment could fit nicely on the same track as the switcher...

The trucks under the Alco are A-1-A, not C...RSC-2 #25 was known as the Tampa Tiger on the original Adirondack Railway in 1980. Originally SAL. She was purchased at auction in '82 by NYS&W then sold/donated to the U&MV chapter in mid-1980s. She never was in Adirondack Railway paint during her service there. She was orange and blue from FP&L.

This all started when the museum hired a new Executive Director. She has started a capital campaign, which includes a building expansion which would have to go - you guessed it -where the trains are. So call them a hazard and get rid of them. My fear is they will get cut up after some length of time when no one comes forward to pay to move them.

In this case, it would have been useful if the location of the collection were included in the subject line. I was able to figure it out from the link to the newspaper article (which I had already seen elsewhere)

Same logic applies to another thread in which I had to look at the pictures and recognize something that had been restored to figure out what location /musuem they were talking about.

Bob H

Maybe its just me but I knew exactly what children's museum was being talked about since we have discussed this facility here not too long ago.

He doesn't necessarily care whether the title is accurate. Remember he is just showing us his prowess to navigate and find information.

Later!
Mr. Ed

No.

We've addressed this before.

We have a whole section of this website dedicated STRICTLY to posting links to news articles on rail preservation. It's called "Flimsies":

http://www.rypn.org/flimsies/

"Sloan" keeps posting Interchange posts that consist of nothing--NOTHING--but the headline cited in the news item and a URL to the news item. That is the function for "Flimsies," not this forum.

Honestly? I usually don't even bother with his posts, because I know that only in extraordinary circumstances will there be any elaboration, detail, or the like presented, and I'm going to have to open up another window or tab to figure out whether it's anything I already know or care about ("'Engine to be put on display in museum'--sounds interesting--oh, dang, it's just another item on C&O 614....").

All I'm asking for is that "Sloan" at least adds a sentence of commentary saying "The Santa Fe station in Burgville, Kansas may get moved by the local historical society as a museum" or "a group wants to see if Engine 105 in the park in Town, Texas can be steamed..." Or even, as mandated by a couple other forums I'm on, that the town and state (and sometimes the RR) be added to or as the subject line. "Local group wants to restore station" is lazy and ineffectual in a RR station news list; "Pittsburg, KS" is better in that example........

Santa Fe heritage, if the letterboard's right. What's it doing there??