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Railroad museum displays do not have to be complex to be engaging. At the Illinois Railway Museum, this former Indiana Harbor Belt gasoline motorcar (“speeder”) has been placed on display with an appropriate sign explaining its basic function and use (opposite). What’s more, visitors are not restricted from sitting in the de-activated motorcar, further adding to the experience. A collection of railroad tools and wayside signs can be found at the New York Museum of Transportation, just outside of Rochester (above). The different colors and shapes of the signs make them engaging, and the tools are placed in context with proper annotations on the opposite wall. The replica handcar helps tie this simple but effective display together.
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IF YOU’RE READING THIS COLUMN, that means you most likely have an active inter- est in railway preservation. Perhaps you vol- unteer at a local museum, or maybe you just enjoy visiting them, and want to learn more about the inner workings of this complex movement to save our railroading history. As a regular reader of this magazine, you most likely understand at least the basic concepts of railroading, and probably don’t even give them a second thought. Unfortunately, the
vast majority of museum visitors do not have that experience, and that is the chal- lenge we face as institutions designed to ed- ucate. Most of the railroad museums in this
country did not get their start until the Eisenhower era. In this period of postwar prosperity, the railroad industry was in a rush to modernize and recover from years of hard wartime service. This meant the mass retirement of steam locomotives, replace-
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