Well done, Sandy. Can we get that as a bumper sticker?

Howard P.

The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society came about because someone back in 2001 pointed out on the Erie Lackawanna email list that EL diner 770 was for sale and someone should save it. People started offering to contribute and several people came forward to create what is today the ELDCPS. Of course the deal to buy 770 fell through and we bought diner 741 instead, but it all worked out in the end.

Love the grumpy system pic - hahahah

While its obvious that not every preservation project makes front page news here on RYPN, there are some that might be brought to the attention of someone who might have some money or abilities to help the cause, who simply might not have known about it before a repost of a picture or a topic. I know of two pieces of equipment I became directly involved with in a small part that i never saw any mention on here. While their status isn't necessarily safe forever at the moment, they are not razor blades like they would have been. And that was through friends and facebook that I learned of it and got involved.

Credit goes to its creator, Michael William Sullivan, who posted it to the "Lolz Train" Facebook group, which is apparently devoted to graphic representations of railfan humor. He claims it was "Created in about 40 seconds using Adobe Illustrator."

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/LolzTrain

other examples:

More appropriate to this forum:

Sandy's statement that the internet has not been helpful in discovering candidates for preservation is one of the most absurd things I have ever read here. I personally have found stuff that I have saved just from looking at pics posted by urban explorers, and I know others have too. Come to think of it I first learned about our Kling type hot metal car from a pic I saw online.

I pass this equipment all time. At the risk of being hammered here, if somebody is really interested in the stuff I can stop and ask questions next time I'm in the area.

As I recall the guy who owned the scrap yard bought the set at auction in Beech Grove as a way to "demonstrate" his services and ability to move a car that size over the highway in hopes of picking up some business hauling cars that couldn't make CR interchange. I was looking at cars the same time he was. The cars have become a landmark where they sit now.

Bill

if you go to the Model Railroader forum there are so many repeat posts asking about couplers and very common questions, but theres a core group always diligent to answer them curteously, they love the hobby and open answer questions without rebuke.

so we get pop up rehashes on topics here as well...


carry on

So have I. Photos and pieces of paper.

I'm talking rolling stock, stations, and stuff you need a truck, at minimum, to move. Not something you can click on "Buy It Now" at eBay and sit back and watch the mailbox.

I'm challenging RJD's implication or assertion that "we're saving all kinds of stuff now because we have the Internet to discover it!" My intention was that by forcing people to actually come up with examples, they would see that said implication is an exaggeration at best. We're only just now starting to get to this point, in the past five or so years.

"We" knew about the Amtrak RTG turbo a dozen years ago. It's still there--maybe.

When a benefactor and I saved those four B&O trucks, it was because he NEEDED them, had an immediate use for them, and had the resources to say "here's my money; I'm sending a truck..." This is decidedly the exception. More typically, the oft-repeated cycle is "Here's a car with a For Sale sign on it..." "OMG someone should save that!" "Yeah, someone should save it, lets pass da word!" [six years later] "O NO!!! there cutting up that car!!!! why didn't someone save it???"

The recent sweeper swap between National Capital and Rockhill trolley museums was the result of information available on the internet. Frank Hick's database provided the initial information that there was a McGuire sweeper in Iowa and identified the owner.

While I am unsure of the origin of the news about the Trolleyville/Lake Shore sale, the existence of the internet certainly facilitated the ability of museums to work together to assure that collection was saved.

Wesley

Car 56 remains came up via the internet and i acted immediately, A 1954 Bristol double decker is now in the throws of being saved by myself because it was found on the internet via google earth, The UP streamliner boxcars here in Cheyenne were found on the internet and are part of my future plans,
so no once again someone is wrong....and some of these thread replies are ridiculous...hardly ever bother looking at RYPN anymore, used to be the first forum i went to, and i know others who have given up with it completely...time to start a whole new forum made up of different categories as put forward recently...but moderators here dont seem to exist ?

Mike Pannell

Been there and done that.
http://www.steampreservation.com/forum/

Nobody knows it exists, or if they do, they don't like it.

As a general rule, such questions have definitive "yes/no/Part 83-J74a/$28.76 at ModelTrainJunk.com" answers. Done.

The "answers" to "1361/614/3713/643/EBT/etc.", such as they are, aren't so simple, unless you want to count the all-purpose, insultingly-simplistic answer "more money, please". And accurate, lengthy answers provoke as many questions and criticisms as they answer.

Yes, and that's the LAST thing we want on a discussion forum, actual discussions...

They get in the way of all the whining about how the place is run and what people post.

I bow to the all knowing ADM. Of course nothing has been preserved because of the availability of mass information sharing on the Internet. Even the examples cited in this thread didn't happen.

I shall not speak such nonsense any more, and I apologize for all the bytes I have wasted.