NEW YORK CENTRAL 2014 CALENDAR
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NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. DEPT T • 17038 ROOSEVELT AVE LOCKPORT, IL 60441-4734
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TWO PHOTOS: OTTO M. VONDRAK
ment of passenger cars, and elimination of nearly all wood-bodied freight cars. On the transit side, any city streetcar and trolley lines that had survived through the war were now quickly being replaced by buses. Until this time, no one really thought much about saving trains and putting them in a museum because they were so common; nearly everyone had some interaction with the railroads on a daily basis. Most of the people who helped establish
many of the early museums were the ones who grew up with these old trains, and wanted to keep them around for others to enjoy. All the better if the collection could be assembled together on a large plot of land, or even operated for the public on an old branch line. In those days, it would have been silly to have to explain what a boxcar was or the difference between New York Central and Michigan Central or the role of the fireman and conductor. The concept of what a “railroad museum” exactly is has changed somewhat over the
last 50 years or so. It is now no longer enough to simply haul in some old trains and put them on display for the public to en- joy. Today, the only time someone seems to notice a freight train is when they are stopped in traffic or the evening news re- ports on a derailment. Outside the major metropolitan areas, passenger trains are rare, sometimes only calling in the middle of the night three days a week. The railroads have retrenched, and few have the same dai- ly interactions with the public that used to be so common two generations ago, which can make interpreting our collections to the general public somewhat difficult. Last season I was giving a tour around
our museum grounds, and pointed out a lo- comotive in our collection, Lehigh Valley 211 (ex-Pennsylvania Railroad 8445, for those of you keeping score at home) a rare high-hood Alco RS-3. I said a few words about how the locomotive was used, it’s con- nection to our area, and how our volunteers saved it and restored it. Someone on the tour
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