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For every nice display piece a railroad museum has I find that there are about three pieces of junk equipment hidden somehwere out back. The Kentucky Railway Museum is no exception only they have taken the time to build nice yard tracks and at least display these things in a somewhat appealing matter. Plus rare or important pieces that could be restored easily are kept underroof.
In this deadline we have a steel Illinios Central caboose, a Southern bay window caboose (the one piece of Central KY NRHS equipment R.J. Corman didn't destroy), and a rare Monon extended vision caboose. Farther down this line is also a pickle vat car with two tanks still intact and a Fairbanks Morse H-12-44 switch engine.
In this deadline we have a steel Illinios Central caboose, a Southern bay window caboose (the one piece of Central KY NRHS equipment R.J. Corman didn't destroy), and a rare Monon extended vision caboose. Farther down this line is also a pickle vat car with two tanks still intact and a Fairbanks Morse H-12-44 switch engine.
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The Southern bay window caboose belongs to the Central KY chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society which is actually based in Paris, KY some one hundred miles away from KRM. The Central KY NRHS owned (owns) several pieces of equipment which were being evicted from their storage space in Paris so they had to be moved somewhere and KRM was chosen since the Bluegrass Railroad Museum in Versailles is the only other chose and no one will give them anything for good reason.
R.J. Corman Railines which is a local regional carrier was asked to move this caboose as well as several Erie-Lacawanna commuter coaches from the Central KY's defunct tourist railroad. The crew at R.J. Corman put the passenger car at the head end of a LOADED COAL TRAIN and sub-sequently accordian crushed everything except the caboose. The passenger cars were scrapped on site in Lexington, KY.
R.J. Corman Railines which is a local regional carrier was asked to move this caboose as well as several Erie-Lacawanna commuter coaches from the Central KY's defunct tourist railroad. The crew at R.J. Corman put the passenger car at the head end of a LOADED COAL TRAIN and sub-sequently accordian crushed everything except the caboose. The passenger cars were scrapped on site in Lexington, KY.
"junk equipment" is the condition most things come to them. then the real work of researching what a particular piece of junk looked like at some particular point in time, and then restoring it, to as close as possible that condition, which takes time, money, tons of volunteer labour, and more time. not everything on display of course, but most of it, came in the junk line condition and people working there, mostly fans and enthusiests, on their own time, and often with a good deal of their own resources, and all the politicing of the governing board. it's a process. often an agonizing one. different parts of it for different people a rewarding one of course.
most people don't seem to get interested in things until they're old enough to be pretty much falling apart too.
when steam was still the way things were done, horses and buggy whips were what people wanted musiums to be about.
that's one reason i'm also a fan of a lot of things that still exist, so its not too late to document them with decent pictures, that historians 50 or a hundred years from now, will need to restore them.
most people don't seem to get interested in things until they're old enough to be pretty much falling apart too.
when steam was still the way things were done, horses and buggy whips were what people wanted musiums to be about.
that's one reason i'm also a fan of a lot of things that still exist, so its not too late to document them with decent pictures, that historians 50 or a hundred years from now, will need to restore them.
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