Re: Car Storage Building(s)

Hi,

All the comments about not being good for photographers, not accessable to the public, etc are all good issues for a car storage building.

One of the better museum buildings I've visited is the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. There is an overhead walk where photos of the tops of some of the equipment (especially a GG1) can be made. The platforms between tracks are wid and one locomotive (I think it is an H5sb 2-8-0) is over a pit where visitors can see the undersides of the locomotive and the inside of the frame valve gear.

If I recall correctly, this building was built in two stages and was several million dollars for each part.

Compared to the simpler WW&F card barn storage building (at maybe $35,000), you get what you pay for/can afford.

I think there should be two goals here. First is an immediate storage for restored equipment so they can last longer. Second is a Museum for stuffing and mounting several pieces of different equipment with interperative displays so the non-railroader might learn a little more about the changes in the equipment, appreciate the equipment better, and maybe drop an few extra dollars into a restoration fund drop box.

These two ideas are more like a short range and a long range solution insteade of competing either or ideas.

On a similar note, if/when there is a more modern locomotive maintenece facility, it has also been mentioned over time that a visitor's viewing booth may be added. I have seen these many places but the first one that comes to mind is the Vehicle Assembly Building (VA at NASA's Cape Kennedy. I was there several times between 1967 and 1973. It was awe inspiring to see an Apollo/Saturn V rocket being assembled there.

For what its worth.

Doug vV



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2015 07:13PM by dougvv.