Congratulations to Superintendent Jeremy Komasz and his staff at STEA for arranging the orderly transfer of this historic artifact to an entity that appears to be more well situated to preserve it in a sustainable manner. Many of my past posts have encouraged this type of cooperative action to ensure the responsible stewardship of the items in the yard. Hopefully this transfer is just the beginning.

This one was really complicated, so I'm not holding my breath for this to be the blueprint to orderly deaccession, but it gives us at least an example to point to as to why this should happen.

If someone here is part of a not-for-profit organization that can demonstrably provide a better home for one of the unloved coal yard dwellers, I can at least point you in the right direction.

It is great of you to offer to facilitate this process. Would it be possible for you, or a colleague at STEA, to provide a hypothetical list of potential “unloved coal yard dwellers” for those that are not familiar with the collection in Scranton and the status of the individual pieces?

No one's going to do a "hypothetical" list.

If you can ID a piece for which you or your associates can make a concerted case that you could "do better" at preserving it at a new home, then get your collective act together and make the proposal.