Does anyone have a suggestion or a photo of a locomotive displayed indoors, with a large window faceing the public for outdoor viewing? If you have a good picture of a modern steam loco, something showing the window or the building, would you be so kind as to post the URL or email it to me?

glueck@maine.edu

We are working up our nerve for the meeting on the 470, next Tuesday. Thanks to everyone who has emailed to the city.

Richard

I believe the Smithsonian has a large window affording a view of their Southern Railway steam locomotive from the outside. -- Ray

Smithsonian does have such a display, but the lighting/glare makes it difficult to see 1401 during some hours of the day. Used to work across the street, and somethimes you couldn't see anything but a reflection. It must be a tricky proposition to get right. Steamlocomotive.com has a photo from inside. Couldn't find anything from outside.

EP&SW #1 is a display liked you mentioned. [url]http://www.trainweb.org/elpasorails/slide.html
Hope this helps.

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If you go to www.steamlocomotive.info/index.cfm and select the display for Lima, Ohio you will see a photo of a shay locomotive on display behind glass. If required I can e-mail a similair image that I took in 2002. Just send me an adress that I can send it to.

Ed Burger

These are good suggestions. Thanks for the help with the research.

Dick

There is a engine in Jacksonville Beach FL that is in a glass enclosure. The URL is http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomo ... isplay=347

Not a locomotive, the City of Ontario, California, has a old horse car (streetcar) behind glass. The horse car once ran up and down Euclid Avenue within a large center mediam that still exists. A small building is located within this mediam and has glass sides.

The Wayne County Historical Society has the Stourbridge Lion replica on display in Honesdale, PA with a full length window facing the street. I have never photographed it, since I don't think it's very effective. Too dark, day and night. Only the face of the locomotive is visible, and if you didn't know to look for it, you wouldn't see it.

This is perhaps the biggest dilemma in preservation... How do you give people access to something, usually something they own, without it being destroyed by weather, animals, people? This exhibit is a good try, but with some of the displays, it seems as though they are in mausoleums, for lack of a better term.

I wish the 470 group luck. Even a mausoleum is better than decay.

The Wayne County Historical Society has the Stourbridge Lion replica on display in Honesdale, PA with a full length window facing the street. I have never photographed it, since I don't think it's very effective. Too dark, day and night. Only the face of the locomotive is visible, and if you didn't know to look for it, you wouldn't see it.

This is perhaps the biggest dilemma in preservation... How do you give people access to something, usually something they own, without it being destroyed by weather, animals, people? This exhibit is a good try, but with some of the displays, it seems as though they are in mausoleums, for lack of a better term.

I wish the 470 group luck. Even a mausoleum is better than decay.

Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo #40 (0-6-0) is on display in Lindsay, Ontario in a shelter behind glass in a park. It may protect it, but due to the glare of the sun, you can hardly see it unless you are right up against the glass. Also, the glass is only on one side so only that side is visible.