Re: Preserving the Knowledge to Preserve!

Tony, I was in the Albuquerque office recently, and there is a room full of "Big Books" of information, basically 30 years of restoration records. I didn't know we had so much stuff, and certainly, the people working on some of the same projects this summer don't know about the information you provided. So part of this effort is to find a way to share what we've done in the past to all Team Leaders and others interested in the future. I think that in course of reviewing what other project teams had done will open up discussions on better ways in the future. For instance, I am working on a set of documents on the 0579 restoration, and when one of our members read it, he asked a question why didn't we do something a different way, like what he had seen on the RPO restoration. I had to ask myself, "Why did we do it that way?". Because we didn't know any better at the time! I noted in the document to consider what had been done on the RPO restoration the next time we restore a caboose.

I personally like the idea of a cloud-based repository, but we need to sell that concept to the organization. That would mean getting all those records digitized and cataloged, and that's going to be a huge project. BTW, they have a VHS copy of the "John Carson and Hawley Seeley interviews", from 1997, but nobody there knew the significance of that.

Bill Kepner



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