Re: DRG Coach 256 and RPO 65 progress!!!

> In my former life as an archaeologist, I was struck by how much data
> the material culture contained that documentary evidence often did not.

As a practicing aerospace engineer, not so surprising. Even in a domain that requires meticulous capture in what we call the "released engineering", I'm amazed at what we forget, even in the short term. And, in the more established domains, like construction, a lot of undocumented "convention" is relied upon, and sometimes the design decisions are made by the fabricators at the time of fabrication, 'do it that way and move on', Years later, you archaeologists come along, dig our stuff up and say, "gee, what were they thinking??"

BTW, it was exciting enough to me when the initiative to restore 168 came to fruition. But it's even more exciting to see the attention paid to the historical context, as I think we should study what was done in what my granddaughers call "the olden days" (pre-2008, to be specific ), to aid our perspective about how we design and build now. Thanks...