I should mention that the CERA recently started a blog, with announcements on upcoming events and historical articles with pictures. The home page is here.
One nice feature is that scans of the first 30 CERA Bulletins are available in the archives. They have some very interesting content. Enjoy!
Randall,
ReplyDeleteThe IRM mailing got to me yesterday. Your part of the Zephyr excursion last year was mentioned.
It must have been quite a weekend.
That R&W issue on the history of the move to Union was great! They museum was so lucky to have a bunch of young guys to do all the moving and building of track etc.
I do not know of any other museum that moved so many cars such a long way. The Bay Area Association had about 20 cars to move from storage yards to their Rio Vista Junction site; about half the number IRM moved to Union!
Ted Miles
2013 Assoc Member
Have you renewed yet?
TM
Ted: That's an interesting trivia question, I suppose. In the early days, at least, many museum collections had to be moved to new locations, and I wouldn't have thought that IRM's move was necessarily the biggest. Offhand, I'd guess that moving the Steamtown collection to Scranton is probably the biggest such endeavor. Any other ideas?
ReplyDeleteRandall,
ReplyDeleteI was speaking about the 25 or so traction museums.
but you are right even back then IRM was both electric and main line.
Also I agree that the Steamtown move was quite an event. And one time IRM people such as David Conrad were part of the project.
Ted Miles
IRM Member
Oh. In that case, for traction museums it's probably hard to beat the relatively recent move of the Brookins collection, about 40 cars, from North Olmsted to the warehouse in Cleveland. The distance was relatively short, about 15 miles, but most of the work is the loading and unloading. And then IRM also moved much of the TWERHS collection to Union about 1988. If it's not nailed down, we'll take it!
ReplyDeleteFYI, the Brookins collection was 32 cars. Also, since you take anything that's not nailed down, can I interest you in a 1945 air- electric PCC car.
ReplyDeleteArtschwartz
Art: Nick is the person to talk to, of course. I can see it will soon be time for another video: "Honest Nick's PCC City!"
ReplyDeleteAs for the Trolleyville collection, Frank's listing has a total of 36 cars, seven of which were disposed of earlier, leaving 29 at Cleveland until 2009. 9 of those were stored on the RTA, so there should have been 20 at the warehouse. I thought it had been more.
Randall:
ReplyDeleteFrank's list did not include 2 cabooses and the Blackpool car, which made 32 to be moved out of Trolleyville.
Artschwartz