A very interesting shot. Lots to look at!
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| Posted by Dana M. on October 16, 2016 | |
Very unique photo shot Brian - taken with a drone I suppose! Very creative and different from the "typical" and most often seen "wedge" shots posted on this site. It does bring to mind my thoughts that I've developed over the years about railroad or railway "museums". When groups start a railroad museum, keep it simple and maintainable. Most often the folks who get into the museum "business" are railroad enthusiasts who love trains - with former railroad retirees among the group - but have no clue how to run a business. They enthusiastically buy whatever equipment they find for sale or available with the best of intentions to restore it, put it on display in it's current condition, and hope for the best that visitors would come and support the place with their admission purchase. However, in the long run they end up having a collection of railroad equipment on a property that looks like a scrap or salvage yard and the few visitors that they get don't supply enough of the income the museum was hoping for to maintain the equipment. What most museums SHOULD do is keep it simple and concise. Start with maybe six pieces of equipment, and do what is necessary to maintain or restore that collection of just six pieces. So they only have a "limited" collection - if it looks pristine, and is restored, then people will want to come and see what you have. Once that is established, then add to the collection one or two pieces at a time - and maintain what you acquire once you get it, as well as what you already started with. This photo is the prime example of what most railroad museums get into - more equipment than they know what to do with. When a museum gets in "way over their heads" with more equipment than money to maintain or restore that equipment, then it's perhaps time to shed some of that equipment. Museums need to realize that sometimes having a lot in a collection isn't the best thing to do. They do need to come to terms with the truth that not ALL railroad equipment CAN or SHOULD be saved, and if they can't save it, don't put it in their "collection" that is already beyond their own means to maintain.
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Great shot, Brian. This could make a very interesting & fun puzzle.
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I can't tell if it's HO or N gauge...all kidding aside - very neat photo!
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Looking at the thumbnail, I first thought it was masonry.
Nice photo.
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It is a nice and eclectic collection. That the museum has "Metropolitan View" from the 1938 version of the Broadway Limited rocks. I was a volunteer at the museum 1999-2001. Somewhere in that photo may be my project, the 10-1-2 Pullman "Lake Mansfield". I got as far as getting a lot of rust removed, needle scaling the trucks down to bare metal, and painting, before moving away. It was a great time.
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