Re: 346 tender back in Golden

El Nehi Wrote:
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> I really hope you're not saying that the reason
> you work at the museum is to please me. Because
> if you are, you really should have written first,
> so I could let you know what the requirements are
> to please me.
>
> But I don't really think that is what you meant.
> I think, like many of us, you really enjoy working
> on the real thing, and others make the choices of
> how it will be painted and dressed up.
>
> I want to thank so many of you for sharing your
> OPINION. It was equally valuable as mine. But
> thank you for thinking that this is a "historic
> restoration". I'm sure that whoever made the
> choice to replicate the patches meant for you to
> think that. In fact, the frame was aparently
> restored, and a new cistern was built out of
> stainless steel. This mimics a common practice on
> the D&RG(W) of replacing the cistern when it wore
> out. However, the D&RG(W) would never have
> installed a new cistern and patched it to
> duplicate the old patches. That is purely art, or
> modeling, which ever word you want to choose.
>
> Trueth is, Bob Richardson meant for his engine to
> be a runner on his little layout. That is why he
> put the dome back the way he wanted it, rather
> than being historic and preserving the engine the
> way it was. He sure could have jsut kept it
> running, and kept it looking the way it did the
> last 10 years of the Grande, but he didn't. He
> put the steam dome covers back on cause that's how
> he wanted the world to be represented. Same way
> we modelers build our models to look the way we
> want them.


Who are you replying to? If it was my post, I don't work at the museum, nor am I affiliated with them in any way.