Defiance Coal CO #1 in jeopardy

Defiance Coal Company 0-4-0 # 1 at the Railroad Museum of Long Island in Riverhead NY is in dire straits. The 1921 built 40" gauge Porter which was once in the collection of Dr Stanley Groman's Rail City in Sandy Creek NY.It latter ended on long island in the 1980's when it was sold to John Degan of Southampton NY who restored it to operating condition and operated on rollers placed on a trailer and was steamed up at many events on Long Island. In 1999 it was donated to the museum. Part of the deal was it had to remain under cover which was some what met her boiler sticks out into the elements. She is in worse shape now then she has been in a long time. While the museum bored sits and plays with their Lionel trains the equipment rots away as the two pit cars are rusting away to nothing that came with the locomotive. A few board member's have raised questions about the new toy train goal but they fall on deaf ears. There was a chance to save one best examples of a class of passenger car left and turned it down so they can watch their toy train go around the pitiful layout and selling 027 cars. The #1 along with the other equipment is in limbo the man power was out there to work on her but they fell to hears beautiful dreamer toy on a layout instead of seeing this locomotive that was only a few years ago operating overhauled.
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Olaf The Red
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