Can anyone tell us what equipment Steamtown is selling, AND, if they are selling a wood Pullman car (built late 19th century), what condition it is in?

heraclius_60657@yahoo.com

> Can anyone tell us what equipment Steamtown
> is selling, AND, if they are selling a wood
> Pullman car (built late 19th century), what
> condition it is in?

Good luck. I have emailed Pat McKnight there as suggested in some postings about this equipment twice over the past month and recieved no response or acknowledgement.

Ready, willing and able to provide a good home for the right car now if only communication would happen.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

> Good luck. I have emailed Pat McKnight there
> as suggested in some postings about this
> equipment twice over the past month and
> recieved no response or acknowledgement.

> Ready, willing and able to provide a good
> home for the right car now if only
> communication would happen.

> Dave

Hume:

When this report of Steamtown selling unused equipment first came up I seem to recall someone publishing a list of the equipment they were disposing of (I remember it because it had a Jubilee on it....excuse me, a Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 type steam locomotive.) I went back through the INTERCHANGE postings and could not find the list. Now it COULD be that I read it on a different website but I don't think so. But what I did notice is that RYPN is apparently deleting old postings. This is OK but it would be nice if we could somehow get into them (perhaps there is a way and I just don't know how to do it and if there is, my apologies.) Now I can understand your deleting the old format INTERCHANGE postings Hume, but if there were some way to get into the old postings on the current format, it might cut down on some repetative postings (like this one.)

Thanks for hearing me out.

midlandblb@cs.com

> Hume:

> When this report of Steamtown selling unused
> equipment first came up I seem to recall
> someone publishing a list of the equipment
> they were disposing of (I remember it
> because it had a Jubilee on it....excuse me,
> a Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 type steam
> locomotive.) I went back through the
> INTERCHANGE postings and could not find the
> list. Now it COULD be that I read it on a
> different website but I don't think so. But
> what I did notice is that RYPN is apparently
> deleting old postings. This is OK but it
> would be nice if we could somehow get into
> them (perhaps there is a way and I just
> don't know how to do it and if there is, my
> apologies.) Now I can understand your
> deleting the old format INTERCHANGE postings
> Hume, but if there were some way to get into
> the old postings on the current format, it
> might cut down on some repetative postings
> (like this one.)

> Thanks for hearing me out.

Au Contrair.

I have deleted notehing from the new bulletin board. Go set your preferences so that you can see all the postings for the last two months (or three if you like) and you'll see every post that's been made on the new Interchange since its inception.

For the record, I have the old Interchange postings archived. And, I can search them for specific topics. I have dug up a thing or two per requests from indvivduals.

Hope this addresses you issue and answers your question.


Railway Preservation News
hkading@mail.rypn.org

> Au Contrair.

> I have deleted notehing from the new
> bulletin board. Go set your preferences so
> that you can see all the postings for the
> last two months (or three if you like) and
> you'll see every post that's been made on
> the new Interchange since its inception.

> For the record, I have the old Interchange
> postings archived. And, I can search them
> for specific topics. I have dug up a thing
> or two per requests from indvivduals.

> Hope this addresses you issue and answers
> your question.

You can also use the search function in the new Interchange to find posts on topics whether they're visible or not.

Also, I was a little bit annoyed that people haven't been using the spell checker. But, when I just tried it it wasn't working. Has it been down for awhile, or has nobody noticed because nobody uses it?:)


Railway Preservation News
hkading@mail.rypn.org

> Au Contrair.

> I have deleted notehing from the new
> bulletin board. Go set your preferences so
> that you can see all the postings for the
> last two months (or three if you like) and
> you'll see every post that's been made on
> the new Interchange since its inception.

> For the record, I have the old Interchange
> postings archived. And, I can search them
> for specific topics. I have dug up a thing
> or two per requests from indvivduals.

> Hope this addresses you issue and answers
> your question.

Hume:

Thanks (I think.) I guess I have to set my preferences for the last X number of months. I'm sure someone out there will eventually explain to me how to do this.

Les


midlandblb@cs.com

> Hume:

> Thanks (I think.) I guess I have to set my
> preferences for the last X number of months.
> I'm sure someone out there will eventually
> explain to me how to do this.

> Les

Hume:

Never mind; I figured it all out. My apologies for taking up valuable INTERCHANGE space!

Les


midlandblb@cs.com

Let's get this straight once and for all.

Steamtown is NOT selling surplus equipment.

They are GIVING it away.

IF you are a qualified, registered non-profit organization, you may qualify.

That said, the equipment in question is "as-is, where-is", meaning, bring your trailer/flatcar/cranes to Tobyhanna. And some of this equipment is in horrendous shape, having been neglected for 30 years or more. For a couple, scrapping would be a blessing.

I believe the reason you might not be hearing from McKnight is that most of the surplus may have been claimed already. I am told all locomotives have been claimed.

The list of equipment apparently available as of January 17th:--
--Boston & Maine Combination Car #1216 (wood)
--British Great Western Coach #6705
--DL&W Coach #3215
--Erie Stillwell #2 (2633)
--Erie Stillwell #3 (2607)
--Erie Stillwell #4 (2633?)
--Long Island RR coach #7016
--Long Island RR coach #7092
--Rutland Railroad Combination Car #253 (remove certain items before scrapping
--SJ&LS caboose #51
--SJ&LS caboose #53

Purportedly spoken for:
--Boston & Maine Combination Car #2069 (wood, on flat car)
--Canadian National #5288 locomotive
--Canadian Pacific #2929, Jubilee, 4-4-4
--CNJ Coach #1009
--East Branch & Lincoln Logging Derrick
--Kansas City Southern diesel locomotive
--Rutland Railroad Boxcar #9194

SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY may contact the NPS via
Pat_McKnight@nps.gov .



LNER4472@gateway.net

Hume,

It's been down I think for as long as it was implemented. I tried it not long after the site was overhauled several times, but it didn't work. I though it didn't like my computer and/or my typing. I'd use it though if I could.

Gerald Kopiasz, President
Heartland Railroad Historical Society


Heartland Railroad Historical Society
hrrhs@aol.com

> SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY may contact the NPS
> via
> Pat_McKnight@nps.gov .

How can it be more serious than a curator from one museum contacting another, asking for information about a specific piece, and indicating that the next years budget which could fund the move is now being formulated? Professional courtesy would provide for a simple acknowledgement in a timely way even if it is a "thanks but that's taken."

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

> This give away came as news to me (I should have been part of this message process a long time ago). I represent the State of Illinois, which owns the Pullman Factory Historic Site, and we have no wooden cars. Therefore, your information on contacts and inventory was most helpful. If anyone else out there has leads on wooden Pullman's, whatever their shape, message me here. We are eventually going to have a school or the like, to restore these cars.

Let's get this straight once and for all.

> Steamtown is NOT selling surplus equipment.

> They are GIVING it away.

> IF you are a qualified, registered
> non-profit organization, you may qualify.

> That said, the equipment in question is
> "as-is, where-is", meaning, bring
> your trailer/flatcar/cranes to Tobyhanna.
> And some of this equipment is in horrendous
> shape, having been neglected for 30 years or
> more. For a couple, scrapping would be a
> blessing.

> I believe the reason you might not be
> hearing from McKnight is that most of the
> surplus may have been claimed already. I am
> told all locomotives have been claimed.

> The list of equipment apparently available
> as of January 17th:--
> --Boston & Maine Combination Car #1216
> (wood)
> --British Great Western Coach #6705
> --DL&W Coach #3215
> --Erie Stillwell #2 (2633)
> --Erie Stillwell #3 (2607)
> --Erie Stillwell #4 (2633?)
> --Long Island RR coach #7016
> --Long Island RR coach #7092
> --Rutland Railroad Combination Car #253
> (remove certain items before scrapping
> --SJ&LS caboose #51
> --SJ&LS caboose #53

> Purportedly spoken for:
> --Boston & Maine Combination Car #2069
> (wood, on flat car)
> --Canadian National #5288 locomotive
> --Canadian Pacific #2929, Jubilee, 4-4-4
> --CNJ Coach #1009
> --East Branch & Lincoln Logging Derrick
> --Kansas City Southern diesel locomotive
> --Rutland Railroad Boxcar #9194

> SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY may contact the NPS
> via
> Pat_McKnight@nps.gov .


heraclius_60657@yahoo.com

> The National Park Service has it's own e-mail system that is easy to use. As shown in the address above (mine) all you have to do is type the name with the underling between the parts and add @NPS.gov and you should get the person you want.

I hope that that 4-4-4 Jubilee engine is going to Cranston British Columbia(??) They seem to have the rest of the train she used to pull.TM


ted_miles@NPS.gov

> Can anyone tell us what equipment Steamtown
> is selling, AND, if they are selling a wood
> Pullman car (built late 19th century), what
> condition it is in?

where are the 2 cdn steamers going? I heard one was going to canada, was that true?



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