Re: Detail Pictures of D&RGW #278 Scale 12"=1'
| April 24, 2010 07:11PM |
> Okay okay yeah it can get up there in the end I
> was talking more of just the research and writing
> part that doesnt cost much of anything other than
> time and comitment.
>
> Ill write somthing when I think I know enough, my
> mom is allways bugging me saying I should write
> somthing
Brian:
Most folks have no idea of the difficulty involved in research. D&RGW railroad information is spread all over the place. 99% of it is not digital and not even cataloged. The National Park Service folks had to do research at the Colorado RR Museum, Denver Public Library, Colorado Historical Society, Western State College Library, Pioneer Museum in Gunnison, the museums in Montrose and Ridgway.
Tracking down the history of just one item took hours and hours of research. The little push car with a crane on it turned out to be from the RGS.
You say do research that doesn't require much time and committment. I sure wish I knew where that was. I have been doing research on the D&RGW and RGS since the 60s. It costs money to get xerox copies made (they do not give them away...CHS and DPL charge 25 cents a page). Have you priced getting photographs from any of the goverment organizations...it ain't cheap.
I wish people who have not done any of historic research would not be so quick to judge and suggest. One person actually said that he would come to the Colorado RR Museum library one weekend and scan everything there. He obvioulsy had never been there.
Jerry Day
Longmont, CO
> was talking more of just the research and writing
> part that doesnt cost much of anything other than
> time and comitment.
>
> Ill write somthing when I think I know enough, my
> mom is allways bugging me saying I should write
> somthing
Brian:
Most folks have no idea of the difficulty involved in research. D&RGW railroad information is spread all over the place. 99% of it is not digital and not even cataloged. The National Park Service folks had to do research at the Colorado RR Museum, Denver Public Library, Colorado Historical Society, Western State College Library, Pioneer Museum in Gunnison, the museums in Montrose and Ridgway.
Tracking down the history of just one item took hours and hours of research. The little push car with a crane on it turned out to be from the RGS.
You say do research that doesn't require much time and committment. I sure wish I knew where that was. I have been doing research on the D&RGW and RGS since the 60s. It costs money to get xerox copies made (they do not give them away...CHS and DPL charge 25 cents a page). Have you priced getting photographs from any of the goverment organizations...it ain't cheap.
I wish people who have not done any of historic research would not be so quick to judge and suggest. One person actually said that he would come to the Colorado RR Museum library one weekend and scan everything there. He obvioulsy had never been there.
Jerry Day
Longmont, CO
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