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Number 3 Published cooperatively by the Tourist Railway Association Winter 2011 and the Association of Railway Museums

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PRSRT. STD. PRSRT. ARM 2 3 ASSOCIATION OF RAILWAY MUSEUMS TOURIST RAILWAY ASSOCIATION The purpose of the Association of Railway Museums is to The Tourist Railway Association, Inc. is a non-profit lead in the advancement of railway heritage through corporation chartered to foster the development and education and advocacy, guided by the principles set forth in "Recommended Practices for Railway Museums" and operation of tourist railways and museums. incorporated in other best practices generally accepted in the wider museum community. Membership ARM Membership Membership is open to all railway museums, tourist Membership in the Association of Railway Museums is open to railroads, excursion operators, private car owners, railroad nonprofit organizations preserving and displaying at least one related publishers, industry suppliers and other interested piece of railway or street railway to the public on a persons and organizations. TRAIN, Inc. is the only trade regularly scheduled basis. Other organizations, businesses and association created to represent the broad spectrum of individuals interested in the work of the Association are invited to become affiliates. For more details, or to report address what is called “creative railroading”. changes, please contact the Association of Railway Museums, 1016 Rosser St., Conyers, GA 30012, or email to OFFICERS [email protected]. President: Rick Burchett, Chehalis-Centralia RR Call us at (770) 278-0088 or visit our Web site: (360) 570-9191 (home/office) www.railwaymuseums.org. Vice President: Linn Moedinger, Directors (717) 687-8421 Richard Anderson, Northwest Railway Museum, Secretary: Syl Keller, Monticello Railway Museum, [email protected] Monticello, IL (309) 376-3361 (home) Scott Becker, Trolley Museum Treasurer: Alan Barnett: Indiana Railway Museum [email protected] Bob LaPrelle, Museum of the American Railroad, (812) 936-2405 [email protected] Peter Murphy, Exporail, DIRECTORS [email protected] John E. Bush: Roaring Camp Railroads G. Mark Ray, Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, (831) 335-4484 Ext. 138 [email protected] Ken Rucker, National Capital Trolley Museum, Steven M. Butler: San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad [email protected] (262) 853-9662 (cel) Jim Schantz, , Jeffery D. Jackson: American Heritage Railroads [email protected] (970) 259-6505 Eric Sitiko, Electric Railway Historical Society, Craig H. Lacey: Heber Valley Railway (435) 654-5601 [email protected] Kyle Wyatt, State Railroad Museum, Richard N. Noonan: California State RR Museum [email protected] (916) 445-3145 G. Mark Ray: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Officers (423) 240-1480 President: Bob LaPrelle Vice President: Scott Becker Fenner Stevenson: Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad Secretary: Ellen Fishburn, (515) 432-4249 [email protected] Meg Warder: Black Hills Central Railroad (605) 574-2222 Treasurer: Ken Rucker, 1313 Bonifant Road, Silver Spring, MD 20905-5961, Erv White: . 928-607-1493 [email protected] Frankie Wiseman: Middletown & Hummelstown RR (717) 944-4435 X-18 Committees Renewal Parts: Rod Fishburn, Chair, [email protected] STAFF Executive Director: Suzanne Grace (770) 278-0088 Staff Suzanne Grace, Executive Director, 1016 Rosser St., [email protected] Conyers, GA 30012 [email protected] Editor: Aaron Isaacs (612) 929-7066, [email protected] Legal Counsel: Frank McKenna (703) 683-4420 Aaron Isaacs, Editor, 3816 Vincent Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410, [email protected] Webmaster: Bob Harbison (253) 833-2068 Web site: http://www.traininc.org The Association of Railway Museums is a Professional Affiliate Member of the American Association of Museums. To advertise in Railway Museum Quarterly/Trainline, contact Aaron Isaacs at [email protected]. To download an advertising rate sheet, go to www.railwaymuseums.org 4 5 no objections, and believe we are FRA DEVELOPMENTS ADVERTISE IN representing the membership's wishes by moving forward. We will be visiting By Bob Opal RMQ/TRAINLINE more formally with both ARM and TRAIN members at the joint Note: Bob retired in 2008 from the If you serve the rail museum convention next November in Union Pacific Legal Department, where Chattanooga. he was General Commerce & FRA and tourist railway industry, Board elections were held. Linn Counsel. reach your target market by Moedinger of the Strasburg Railroad returned for another term. Joining the I. INTRODUCTION advertising in RMQ/Trainline. board for the first time were Erv White This article summarizes FRA of the Grand Canyon Railway and Meg rulemakings and other developments Warder of the Black Hills Central. A during 2010 which could affect tourist, big THANK YOU goes out to retiring historic or scenic or excursion For more info, contact Aaron long time board member Bob Warder of operations and railroads (“tourist Isaacs at 612-929-7066 or the Black Hills Central. Fortunately his operations” or “tourist railroads” will be wisdom will not be lost, as he will still used as shorthand for all of these [email protected] be active and his daughter is now on the operations). board. Alan Barnett has stepped aside Let’s start with an overview of TRAIN PRESIDENT’S as an elected board member to serve as FRA’s regulation of tourist operations. Treasurer. Julius Caesar once wrote that all Gaul COLUMN TRAIN Executive Director Dan was divided into three parts. So, too, is Ranger has stepped down, accompanied FRA’s regulation of tourist operations. By Rick Burchett by wife Karen Ranger, who has served FRA’s “three parts” are as follows: as Administrative Assistant. I'd like to General System Tourist Operations Another operating season has – This category includes all tourist ended, followed by an excellent TRAIN recognize Dan and Karen for their excellent efforts on behalf of TRAIN, operations conducted on trackage which convention in Alamosa, hosted by the is part of the general railroad system of San Luis & Rio Grande and its Rio particularly bringing back Trainline and building it into a fine publication transportation (i.e., the national network Grande Scenic Railroad. of standard gauge trackage used for Congratulations to Ed Ellis and his crew funded entirely by ad revenues. They have continued to keep the office open freight, intercity passenger and/or for a job well done. There was a pre- commuter passenger service). “General convention trip to the Manitou & Pikes until the transition to Lagniappe Associates is done and have been very system” tourist operations include Peak and the Royal Gorge Railroad. We tourist operations run by general system rode behind steam to Antonito, helpful in the process. Many thanks, Dan and Karen. railroads themselves, and tourist transferred to the Cumbres & Toltec for operations run by other entities over a turn to Sublette, then returned to I'd like to close with a personal note from a proud father. My daughter, general system trackage. With a few Alamosa behind steam. The highlight exceptions, FRA rules generally apply was a steam powered round trip over La Rikki, has grown up firing steam locomotives on the Chehalis-Centralia to this category of tourist operations the Veta Pass, now the highest standard same as they do to freight railroads, gauge mainline in North America and Railroad. Now age 24, she attended the convention and was invited to fire Rio and commuter railroads, one of the great unheralded train rides. Non-General System, Non-Insular Between the trips were informative Grande Scenic Railroad 2-8-0 #18 on its 2.5 percent assault on La Veta Pass. Tourist Operations (“non-insular” for seminars, multiple TRAIN Board short) – This category includes tourist meetings and, of course, plenty of That's her in the cab during a photo runby. operations which do not operate over opportunities to renew old friendships any general system trackage, but use and make new ones. The conventions trackage which includes any of the have always offered plenty of schmooze following features: (i) a public rail- time and this year was no exception. highway grade crossing; (ii) a rail-rail Our cooperative efforts with the crossing at grade, (iii) a bridge over a Association of Railway Museums public road or navigable waterway, or continue. The Board approved the (iii) a common corridor with another three-way agreement with ARM and railroad (ie., its operations are within 30 editor Aaron Isaacs to produce feet of another railroad). This category Trainline/Railway Museum Quarterly. includes most tourist operations. Non- The Board authorized representatives to insular operations are subject to a more negotiate with Suzanne Grace to have limited set of FRA rules than general her company Lagniappe Associates system operations, and FRA often provide management services to excludes them entirely from new TRAIN. Over the winter, the rulemakings. TRAIN/ARM Organization Team will Non-General System, Insular hold conference calls to resolve as Tourist Operations (“insular” for short) many issues as possible before the joint - This category includes tourist Spring meeting at French Lick, Indiana operations which do not operate over next March 25-26. general system trackage AND do NOT Although it has been called a include any of the features which would merger, it is more correct to say we are make them “non-insular” as described headed toward the dissolution of both in the preceding paragraph. This ARM and TRAIN, which will be category would include operations such replaced by a new organization. We as railroads in amusement parks. Prior used the convention as an opportunity to the 2010 Bridge Safety Standards to ask our members' opinions. We heard 6 7 8 9 (described below), no FRA rules tragic September, 2008 applicable to movement of with applied to insular operations. collision at Chatsworth, CA. failed PTC apparatus. Applicability to Tourist Reference: II. 2010 RULEMAKING Operations: The rule is NOT applicable http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/ PROCEEDINGS to non-general system tourist E9-31362.pdf These are summaries of the operations, whether “insular” or “non- This is a very large document (126 rulemaking proceedings FRA either insular.” However, the rule may apply pages of 3-column regulatory instituted or completed in 2010 which to some “general system” tourist microprint). Tourist operations are apply to tourist operations in whole or operations, as follows: specifically discussed at p. 2635 in part. For more information, see the (i) PTC doesn’t have to be (preamble), and pp. 2700 and 2704 web addresses shown for each rule, installed on a general system line just (rule text). The procedures for non- which include not only the text of the because of a tourist operation on the equipped movement are at p. 2712 (rule rules, but FRA’s regulatory “preamble” line (see definition of “main line” at p. text). While these procedures may, on describing their application. Most of 2700). their face, appear to apply only to “en- these rulemakings (shown below as (ii) Tourist trains on a general route failures”, sec 236.1006(c) (p. “RSIA rulemakings” or “RSIA rules”) system line which is equipped with 2704) also makes them applicable to were mandated by Congress in the Rail PTC can be conducted without being non-equipped movements permitted by Safety Improvement Act of 2008. In equipped with PTC if certain the section. these cases, FRA is required by law to requirements are met. Some of these are issue rules on the subject, although it a little unclear, but the requirements Bridge Safety Standards has some discretion as to what is in appear to be as follows: (Final Rule): those rules. The line either has no regularly Summary: This is an RSIA rule scheduled intercity or commuter which requires owners to Positive Train Control passenger service or, if it does, the host determine the safe load capacity of their (Final Rule): railroad’s implementation plan (PTCIP) bridges, and to implement “bridge Summary: This is a very covers operation of non-equipped management programs” as described in extensive RSIA rule which requires tourist trains; the rule, including annual inspections. certain passenger and freight railroads The tourist movement does not Many of the requirements appear to to install very sophisticated (and very exceed 20 miles in length; effectively require inspection work to expensive) train control signal systems If the tourist movement exceeds 20 be done by personnel with engineering on rail lines meeting specified criteria miles in length, the tourist trains must credentials. by 2015, and establishes design be PTC equipped by December 31, Applicability to Tourist standards and approval requirements. 2020; Operations: The rule is applicable to The rule and the RSIA statutory All non-equipped movements must ALL tourist operators that own rail mandate were largely in response to the be made under the procedures bridges (except bridges in amusement 10 parks), including “general system”, for these employees. The requirements system and non-insular tourist “non-insular” and “insular” operators. are similar (but not identical) to those operations, see 49 CFR 225.3. The new This is the first FRA rule to explicitly contained in Emergency Order No. 26, rule only affects the reporting monetary apply to “insular” tourist operations. which FRA issued after the Metrolink threshold for FRA’s existing Since most tourist operators Chatsworth accident. The rule rescinds accident/incident reporting rules (49 probably do not have personnel and replaces Emergency Order 26 CFR Part 225) and does not change the qualified to do much of the work effective March 28, 2011. applicability of those rules. Note that required by the rule, the rule will likely Applicability to Tourist Operations: there are special provisions in the require use of professional bridge Tourist operations are not specifically existing rules which make some of the contractors. The compliance deadline addressed in the rulemaking document. requirements of Part 225 inapplicable to for most tourist operators to have a However, based on section 220.3 most tourist operations (see, for program in place is September 13, (“applicability”), the rule is applicable example, sec 225.3(b)). The new rule 2012. The American Short Line and to tourist operations on the general does not change any of those Regional Railroad Association will system. It is NOT applicable to non- provisions. likely develop model programs for the general system tourist operations, Reference: short line industry (which have many of whether “insular” or “non-insular”. http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/ the same compliance issues as tourist References: 2010-30824.pdf roads), and a similar effort by the http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/ tourist rail industry may be advisable 2010-23916.pdf Conductor Certification (perhaps based on the short line (Proposed Rule) program). Accident Reporting – Summary: This is a proposed Reference: Monetary Threshold RSIA rule which would require http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/ (Final Rule) railroads to implement conductor 2010-16929.pdf Summary: This is a non-RSIA certification programs broadly similar Tourist operations are discussed at rule, which raises the monetary to existing locomotive engineer pp. 41284 and 41288 (preamble) and threshold for reporting a rail equipment certification programs. A final rule will 41313 (rule text, sec 237.1) accident/incident to $9,400, effective probably not be issued until the late January 1, 2011 (a “rail equipment 2011. However, since the proposed rule Use of Cel Phones and Other accident/incident” is a collision, was developed as a negotiated Electronic Devices derailment, fire, explosion, act of God rulemaking through FRA’s RSAC (Rail (Final Rule) or other event involving operation of Safety Advisory Committee), it is likely Summary: This is a non-RSIA rule, on-track equipment, standing or that the final rule will very closely which restricts use of cell phones and moving). follow the proposed rule. other electronic devices by railroad Applicability to Tourist Operations: Applicability to Tourist Operations: operating employees and requires The existing accident/incident reporting Like the existing engineer certification railroads to have instruction programs rules are applicable to both general rule (Part 240), the new rule as

11 proposed would NOT apply to non- roads in the document is on p. 76349, the “restricted equipment” provisions general system tourist operations, where FRA asks for comments whether of the Railroad Freight Car Safety whether “insular” or “non-insular”., It “certain types of railroads (such as Standards, 49 CFR 215.203 and would, however, apply to tourist tourist railroads) should be exempted 215.303, applied not only to general operations on the general system. from the regulation” (question #2, col system tourist operations, but to “non- Reference: 3). ARM presently intends to file brief insular” tourist operations. The http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/ comments on this issue. “restricted service” provisions 2010-27642.pdf Reference: generally prohibit operation of freight Tourist operations are discussed at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/ cars which are more than 50 years old pp.89168 and 89190 (preamble). The 2010-30836.pdf or which have certain components, exclusion for tourist railroads is at p. unless FRA has specifically permitted 69197 of the rule text, sec 242.3(a)(1) II. FRA WAIVER AND SPECIAL their continued operation. If FRA does (as discussed in the preamble, non- APPROVAL DECISIONS permit their continued operation, they general system tourist roads are FRA rules permit railroads and must be stenciled with an “R” and with included in the exception for non- other regulated entities to request relief information as to the reason for the general system “installations”). from specific regulatory requirements restriction. These provisions apply only which would otherwise apply. This to “freight” rolling stock, not to Risk Reduction Plans section summarizes decisions which passenger cars. As such, they do not, by (Advance Notice of FRA issued in 2010 on waiver or their terms, apply to equipment Proposed Rulemaking) special approval requests filed on behalf originally designed as passenger cars. Summary: This is a preliminary of various tourist operations, both But they would apply to equipment document in an RSIA rulemaking. The general system and non-general system. (including ) originally ANPR does not propose any specific The listing could be incomplete as it is designed for freight use, even if rule language. Rather, it is intended to based primarily on notices published in subsequently converted to passenger obtain comments on what should be the Federal Register prior to a decision. use. Examples include freight cars used included in a proposed rule, that would However, FRA sometimes issues these in demonstration freight trains, freight be issued at a later date. In general, the decisions without a prior Federal cars converted with seats for passenger rule would require Class I railroads, Register publication. use, cabooses and the like. intercity or commuter “passenger Restricted Equipment Decisions In response to this enforcement railroads”, and railroads with an activity, a number of tourist operations “inadequate safety record” to develop The largest group of “tourist” decisions involve FRA “restricted (both general system and non-general risk reduction plans meeting system) have requested “special requirements specified in the rule. equipment” requirements. As background, beginning in 2009 (or approvals” to permit continued Applicability to Tourist Operations: operation of 50+ year old freight The only specific mention of tourist thereabouts) some FRA enforcement personnel began taking the position that equipment and “waivers” of the special 12 stenciling requirements. During 2010, Reference: Reference: all of the “restricted equipment” http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume requests FRA considered were ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0007-0005.1 ntDetail;D=FRA-2009-0060-0004.1 approved, subject to conditions. The requests included: Docket No. FRA 2010-021 Docket No. FRA 2009-0112 Requested by: Indiana Transportation Requested by: City of Jasper, IN Docket No. FRA 2010-0001 Museum (Probably general system, (General system) Requested by: Santa Cruz, Big Timber but not stated in FRA decision) Summary: Requested waiver of Part & Pacific Railway (General system) Action: Approved subject to conditions: 223 glazing requirements for Action: Approved subject to conditions Reference: . Reference: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume Action: Approved subject to conditions. http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0021-0003.1 Reference: ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0001-0007.1 http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume Docket No. FRA 2010-0138 ntDetail;D=FRA-2009-0112-0004.1 Docket No. FRA 2010-102 Requested by: Hoosier Valley Railroad Requested by: Orange Empire Railroad Museum (General system) Docket No. 2010-0095 Museum (Probably “general system” Action: Approved subject to conditions Requested by: South Carolina Railroad due to nature of OERM operations at Reference: Museum (General system) time of waiver request, but not stated http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume Summary: Requested waiver of Part in FRA decision) ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0138-0003 240 engineer certification rules to Action: Approved subject to conditions. permit “engineer-for-a-day” program. Reference: Other Waiver and Action: Approved subject to http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume Special Approval Decisions conditions. ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0102-0006.1 Reference: Docket No. FRA 2009-0060 http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume Docket No. FRA 2010-0007 Requested by: Steam Railroading ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0095-0004.1 Requested by: Pacific Locomotive Institute (General system) Association (Covers equipment Summary: Requested waiver of Part Docket No. FRA 2010-0109 operated on Railway. 223 glazing requirements for Requested by: Railway Museum Probably non-general system based on passenger and cars . (Non-general system) waiver petition but not stated in FRA Action: Petition voluntarily withdrawn Summary: Requested waiver of Part decision) as to most equipment. Dismissed as to 230 steam rules to extend 15 year Action: Approved subject to remaining equipment as unnecessary period for performing 1472 service conditions: due to age of equipment. day inspection on . Action: Denied

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13 Reference: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docume ntDetail;D=FRA-2010-0109-0003.1 MUSEUM LOCOMOTIVE STUDY Summary: Section 415 of the 2008 RSIA directed FRA to conduct a study of diesel locomotives and equipment used by museums, historical societies, tourist and scenic railroads, including an analysis of the safety consequences of a less periodic inspection scheme (i.e., replacing the current time based inspection scheme with a scheme based on service days). FRA released the study in July, 2008. The study is expressly limited to general system tourist (etc.) operations, and excludes non-general system operations. FRA’s stated reason for this limitation is that non-insular tourist operations are already exempt from the regulations covered by the study (e.g., the non-steam locomotive standards in Part 229 and the brake rules in Part 232). The study includes a survey of all general system tourist operations, their accident/incident history, and the results of FRA inspections of their equipment. FRA’s conclusion in the study is that a service day inspection scheme should not be adopted. . Reference: http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/safet y/MuseumLocomotiveStudy2010.pdf ARM 2010 CONFERENCE By Aaron Isaacs This was the last stand-alone ARM conference. It was hosted by the National Capital Trolley Museum at one of the country’s newest museum facilities, and featured memorable visits to others, including one of the oldest. There were extensive seminars on a wide variety of preservation topics. Smithsonian The pre-conference tour visited the “America on the Move” exhibit at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum. The exhibit was the last major project of transportation curator William Withuhn before his retirement. I was expecting a rehash of the familiar—everyone knows that the pioneer locomotive John Bull and the last surviving Southern PS-4 4-6-2 are on display. What I wasn’t expecting was one of the most effective museum displays I’ve ever encountered. Given the breadth of its collection, the Smithsonian staff must be tempted to present the history of the entire country. Due to space limitations, this would only be possible in the most superficial way, so they have gone another route. They have focused on Three railroad elements of the Smithsonian’s America on the Move exhibit. 14 specific cities and towns that represent Clare roundhouse roof under a record become an exhibit space. communities everywhere. The Southern snow load. The multi-million dollar In the years since the restoration PS-4 is still there, in all its green and damages threatened the museum’s shop opened, the damaged pieces have gold glory, but now it helps tell the existence. A number of the most been gradually restored. Only two of story of the in the valuable pieces of equipment were the locomotives remain to enter the railroad town of Salisbury/Spencer, badly damaged. One 19th century open shop. The restoration process has North Carolina. The entrance of the platform coach was crushed and had to uncovered the non-historic changes Salisbury depot has been replicated. be scrapped after being stripped for made by the B & O between the 1890s Nearby displays touch on the Pullman parts. and 1950 and those have been porter and segregation within the The insurance settlement fell far corrected. A good example is the 1863 industry. short of the cost to repair everything, 4-6-0 previously named the Thatcher The Smithsonian isn’t the first to but donors responded with Perkins. The name was added after the employ lifesize statues of railroad unprecedented generosity and the engine’s initial retirement. Restorers employees and customers. Ghostly museum recovered. In the process, it discovered that it was not actually white-on-white figures were already a added considerable infrastructure and #117, the first engine in its class, but fixture at the Altoona Railroaders revisited its collection. Previously, all was instead #147. The color scheme Memorial Museum, Omaha’s Durham repairs and restoration had taken place was also brought back to the original. Western Museum and the North in the cavernous, but deteriorated Car Also constructed since the collapse Carolina . Shop. However, it was not suitable for were a pair of open sided train sheds The Smithsonian’s, however, are the major rebuilding of the crushed with high level center platforms. These particularly well sculpted in shades of artifacts. A cost study showed that accomplished the twin goals of white and grey that seem to increase shipping them off-site for repairs was sheltering more equipment, while their presence. A good example is the prohibitively expensive and logistically permitting visitors better access to the motorman of the single truck streetcar awkward. The most cost-effective their interiors. Recently a model and the group of passengers about to decision was to construct a new railroad was opened inside a C&O board. restoration shop, and that’s where the coach under one of the sheds. Particularly effective is the insurance money went. This freed up The post-collapse rethinking of the Transit Authority “spam can” the Car Shop to be used for equipment museum included making it L car. One enters via a replicated L storage and display, following repairs to handicapped accessible. Previously it station platform. The rear of the car the roof, windows and HVAC system. was out of compliance. In the process, transitions seamlessly into a projected It should be noted that there are two the entry, gift shop, offices and displays movie of a trip in progress. Passengers abutting car shop buildings. The South inside the Mount Care Station building in period clothes interact with the Shop holds the equipment. The now- were completely renovated and conductor as he calls out the stops and trackless North Shop is still used for relocated. handles the doors. Meanwhile the car miscellaneous storage. It has recently vibrates realistically along with the received a new roof and windows, Streetcar Museum recording of an actual L train and the dramatically improving its external The broad gauge United Railways receding track is viewed through the appearance. Eventually it too will and Electric of Baltimore retained rear windows. State of the art and very examples of its earliest cars as a effective. B & O Museum Any list of the top railroad museums in North America will always include the B & O. It originated as the corporate collection of the Baltimore & Ohio, which used its history as a railroading pioneer to market itself. Beginning in the 1890s, it gathered surviving historic rolling stock still on the property and restored it to a semblance of its original appearance. In order to recreate an idealized vision of a bygone era, liberties were taken with the backdating. Pieces that couldn’t be found were replicated. Despite these issues, the company preserved a priceless collection that would otherwise have been lost. It stored them for decades and brought them out only for special occasions until 1953, when the railroad opened the B&O Museum to the public. The museum passed into & Ohio control, and eventually CSX, before being spun off as a non-profit in 1990. During those final years of company ownership, some important C&O and Western Maryland pieces were added. The B&O Museum’s modern shop was filled with rare early locomotives and cars The event that changed everything undergoing restoration. was the 2003 collapse of the Mount 15 The Baltimore Streetcar Museum is located near downtown. It features a fine collection of Baltimore cars, as well as a double-track mainline, rare for a museum. Jim Vaitkunas photo. company collection. It’s one of the best well as the relocation of half of the fruition while protecting its interests. city-specific collections anywhere and it demonstration railway. The Museum had raised funds for the survived to become the core of the The relocation created the construction of the Street Car Hall, long museum. Included are two horsecars, opportunity to replace a smaller, older before the highway became a reality. plus a dozen trolleys. Among them are facility with something bigger and state Then in December 2006 the Maryland seven from the period 1890-1905, of the art, mostly at government State Highway Administration (SHA) including a classic double truck open expense. However, this was no turnkey, advanced the Museum $100,000 to car. fully-funded project. It took a begin designing two more buildings. In The museum runs a one-mile tremendous effort by the Museum's 2007 a Memorandum of Understanding demonstration railway alongside Falls leadership to bring the project to was signed by the Museum and SHA. It Road where the Maryland and Pennsylvania once terminated. In the last couple of years the line has been double tracked for much of its length, which adds an historic ambience found at few other traction museums. Along the line is the Ma & Pa’s stone roundhouse, which has served the City of Baltimore for many years as a sand and salt depot. The present carbarn, which was recently expanded to four tracks from three, has been subject to flooding over the years. The roundhouse is on higher ground and at less risk. A study is underway to determine of the city should vacate the roundhouse and turn it over to the museum. The museum operated eight streetcars for the attendees. Among them was snow sweeper #C-145, which rode smoothly like a heavy . National Capital Trolley Museum You'd think it wouldn't be permitted nowadays, but the State of Maryland built a new freeway through a county park where the Museum was located. It cut through the National Wesley Paulson collects oral history from Norman Nelson before a camera and a Capital Trolley Museum's grounds, live audience during the “Capturing Railway History: Live!” session in the Street requiring the replacement of all its Car Hall. Jim Vaitkunas photo. buildings at a new site in the park, as 16 provided $5.6 million to complete the relocation of the Museum. The MOU set January 1, 2009 as the date for the vacation of the old museum site and its transfer to the state. Under the agreement, NCTM was responsible for design and construction. NCTM President (and ARM Treasurer) Ken Rucker served as the project manager. Stone Consulting was hired to prepare an evaluation report of the cost to replace the museum's old facilities under the regulations in place in the fall of 2006. When construction was heading for bidding just a year later, additional unexpected storm water management requirements were added to the project, increasing its cost by $750,000. An additional complication occurred during the summer of 2007 with the shutdown of Street Car Hall construction because the local planning department had not approved a forest conservation plan in 1999. Work was stopped for five weeks which cost an additional $60,000. Initial grading (2002 to 2003) and Street Car Hall (2007) cost $1.25 LOOP NEW LINE million funded with TEA21, state bond REMOVED bills, Montgomery County capital funds, and museum money. Construction of the railway extension, visitor center, maintenance carhouse, and site facilities (2008 to 2010) cost ORIGINAL LINE NEW SITE $6.1 million funded by state highway mitigation funds, state highway relocation funds, and about $400,000 of museum money. The total cost was $7.35 million. A recent story in NEW LOOP and Railroad magazine erroneously reported that the project cost $20 million. The new museum complex consists of three closely spaced buildings. The visitor center includes offices, a large auditorium, gift shop, a small theater, exhibit space and OLD SITE restrooms. Accessible from the Visitor Center by an enclosed walkway is a three-track carhouse, referred to as the Street Car Hall. Beyond it is the three- track Maintenance Carhouse building. Between the two carhouses is a seventh track that accesses a storage/utility area behind the barns. It's a beautiful facility, and many of the visiting ARM delegates were clearly envious. It offers considerably more space than the old complex of three detached buildings, which included a visitor center and two carhouses. Square footage has increased significantly. The new buildings are faced in brick and effectively emulate the style of many historic carhouses. NCTM shut down for the 2009 season and took occupancy of the new site in February 2009. ARM visited in October 2010, too soon for many of the new exhibits to be completed. The 17 The Street Car Communities exhibit includes wall displays and a model streetcar A car leaves the carbarn area for a round layout. Photo courtesy National Capital Trolley Museum. trip on the demonstration railway.

Museum moved its primary exhibit Harold Lloyd, the theater program in the design stage now. Street Car Hall Street Car Communities into the Main demonstrates the use of streetcars as exhibits will change as cars are released Hall of the new facility. Visitors learn props in comedies and offers a glimpse from the car shop or removed from about trolley communities along the into public transportation of the early service on the railway. routes which radiated from the Nation's twentieth century. Visitors observe Although the buildings appear Capital to Mt. Vernon, Fairfax, Glen streetcars operating in the midst of finished, there are still some details to Echo, Chevy Chase, Kensington, automobile and traffic in locations complete. Future plans call for paving Rockville, Laurel, Baltimore and in Los Angeles and New York City the plaza streetcar loop and building an Annapolis. The Museum also relocated where the films were produced. In urban park inside it. and expanded its O gauge layout which Conduit Hall, a piece of DC Transit The new freeway caused the presents the Rock Creek Railway from track that clearly demonstrates how the removal of the southern half of the Calvert Street Loop to Chevy Chase underground conduit power system demonstration railway. A new loop was Lake. A new feature of the Main Hall is worked (overhead wires were built just north of the freeway. The old the exhibit Street Cars Go to the prohibited in the District of Columbia). north loop was removed. There is a Movies. Panels along the theater Street Car Communities will be the passing siding at this location, the mid- entrance introduce visitors to primary permanent exhibit and The point of the line, making multiple-car Washington's movie palaces in the era Conduit Story will remain the second operations possible. Beyond it the track of segregation and to the reality of permanent exhibit, both with occasional climbs 47 feet on a steep grade before using streetcars to travel to the movies. tweaking. Additional temporary dropping 10 feet to reach the new Featuring clips from four movies by exhibits, like Trolleymen at Work, are carbarn complex, which sits on a hill overlooking the old site. After passing the seven-track ladder leading to the carhouses, the line ends in the plaza loop at the visitor center. The roundtrip ride is a quarter mile longer than before (1.71 miles before, 1.96 now). The Museum's collection includes 16 streetcars. Six of these are native to Washington, DC. Two were donated directly by D. C. Transit in 1970. The rest of the collection is notable for being international. There are cars from Belgium, England, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands. One car, Third Avenue Railway System #678, was repatriated from Vienna, Austria and returned to its original New York appearance. The PCC car is well represented by three from Washington, DC, two from Toronto and one from The Hague. Washington, DC and New York City outlawed overhead wires, so current was collected from underground conduits using a “plow” mounted on the car truck.

18 ARM attendees visited the Bowie Railroad Station Museum. Located along the The Washington, DC Chapter NRHS , it features the Pennsylvania Rail Road Bowie depot and hosted meetings between ARM, TRAIN tower, as well as a wood caboose. Scott Becker photo. and other organizations on their Dover Harbor at Washington Union and that frightens many away. There is Now that the relocation is largely an alternative, however. Station. complete, the Museum can again focus The American Association for on streetcar restoration. Capital State and Local History (AASLH) 3. Interpretation Traction Company deck-roof double- specializes in smaller museums, while 4. Stewardship of Collections truck #27 (Kuhlman 1918) has been at AAM tends to deal with larger 5. Stewardship of Historic Structures Rail Technical Services for nine years. institutions. AASLH offers a program and Landscapes A conservation survey of Washington called StEPS, short for Standards and 6. Management Railway and Electric Company 650 Excellence Program for History Each section of the workbook will be done in 2011. The restoration Organizations. It has the same basic includes: itself will be done by a contractor. goal as MAP, but breaks museum Standards Museum car shop staff anticipate assessment into smaller, more Self-assessment questions restoring Capital Transit PCC #1430 on manageable pieces that can be Performance indicators (Basic, Good, site. addressed separately at the museum’s Better) Annual attendance at the old site convenience. In fact, they estimate five Unacceptable practices averaged about 15,000 per year. years to be typical to complete the A fictional case study with questions Although the visitor center opened in process. Print and electronic resources January 2010, the demonstration This from the AASLH website, The speaker used the example of railway was not operational until “StEPs is a voluntary assessment Stewardship of Collections. The October, except for short rides around program for small- and mid-sized standard for it would be: “The museum the plaza loop in front of the visitor history organizations. The program, legally, ethically and effectively center. Despite being only partially created by AASLH with funding from manages, documents, cares for and uses open in 2010, attendance reached 8600. the Institute of Museum and Library the collection.” The self-assessment Services, encourages awareness and question would be: “Are there written SELECTED SEMINARS achievement of national standards. procedures for acquiring, borrowing, Organizations that enroll in this new and lending collection items?” FROM ARM 2010 self-paced, self-study program use The performance indicators would assessment questions and performance be: StEPS—STANDARDS AND indicators (Basic, Good, Better) to rate Basic EXCELLENCE PROGRAM FOR their policies and practices in six a. The institution uses a written donor HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS standards sections. Participating form for artifacts and archives items Presenter: Ann Korzeniewski, AASLH organizations can clearly identify their accepted into its collections. strengths and areas needing b. The institution uses a written loan The Summer 2010 issue of RMQ improvement, and begin taking steps to agreement for each in-coming and was devoted mostly to the Pacific plan for positive change.” out-going loan transaction that Locomotive Association’s experience Whereas MAP requires a self involves collection items. with the Museum Assessment Program assessment followed by an outside peer c. All loans are for a specified time (MAP), the evaluation study sponsored evaluation, StEPS is completely self- period. by the American Association of administered. Museums must apply for Good Museums (AAM). That issue received a a MAP grant. StEPS requires only the a. There are written procedures for number of positive comments, but your payment of $250 ($150 for AASLH acquiring, borrowing, and lending editor also heard from people who members) to purchase the 320-page artifacts and archive items included in found the MAP process too daunting StEPS workbook. The workbook is the collections policy. and too labor intensive. If all its divided into these sections: Better findings are implemented, MAP can 1. Mission, Vision and Governance a. The institution reviews and updates challenge a museum’s entire culture, 2. Audience its procedures on a regular basis. 19 b. The institution requires condition Do you do it well? Are you accredited Are there pieces in your collection that reports for all in-coming and out- or qualified? Do you regularly don’t fit your mission? That’s the first going loans. evaluate? Do you continue to opportunity to downsize. Museums tend to be project improve? What are your objectives? How oriented, and that is how the StEPs Do you make a difference? Can you will you use the equipment? workbook is laid out. Project examples describe your work in terms of Restoration Projects are: benefits, not features? Can you At most museums, the pieces were Orientation manuals explain the difference you make? acquired at the end of their useful lives. Key policies Are you a smart investment? A safe They are worn at best and may be badly Job descriptions one? Do you have your organizational deteriorated. Most need restoration, Emergency plans house in order? Do you have qualified which takes time and is expensive. At Cleaning and maintenance plans staff, board and consultants? B&O we estimate a backlog of 25-30 Collections policy Do you follow best museums practices? years and $20-30 million to complete Acid-free storage supplies Do you have plans and policies in work on our class one objects. An Environmental monitoring equipment place? Do you have effective financial average steam engine cosmetic Exterior signage management plans in place? restoration is $250,000. Collections care training Are you a good partner? Do you Faced with a known backlog of Interpretive plans manage projects effectively? Can you work, you need to know your limits. At Outside financial auditing show you behave well in your own B&O we have available Over 160 museums have signed up community? Can you demonstrate • 1 master metal worker for StEP, including four railroad successful partnerships? • 1 master carpenter museums: Look at this for a moment from the • 1 mechanic/ engineer Laupahoehoe Train Museum, funder’s point of view. The application • 1 part-time track worker Laupahoehoe, HI deadline has passed. There’s a pile of • 1 part-time restorationist Brunswick Railroad Museum, applications in front of you, • 5-10 volunteers Brunswick, MD considerably more than you can fund. Our shop production is Museum, You have to divide them into winners approximately two pieces a year of Ely, NV and losers. Further, you will probably more intensive restoration projects (4-6 Depot Museum, Henderson, TX choose to only partially fund some of months to a year). As museums successfully complete them. It’s no fun turning down needy In addition to our collection of each section of the workbook, they organizations who are doing good work. display pieces, we run a demonstration receive certificates of completion that Nonetheless, the decisions must be railway that includes: are publicized on the AASLH website. made, and often are made based on 4 Operating steam engines For more information, including a technical slipups. Here’s a list of ways 7 Passenger cars recorded webinar, go to to avoid having your grant rejected out 4 blue-carded operating diesels http://www.aaslh.org/steps.htm. of hand. Finally, we have an ongoing Deadlines are not just suggestions, they program of maintenance, weather- WRITING EFFECTIVE GRANTS are real. Get your application proofing and sealing cars located Most museums are not rolling in delivered in time or else. outside. money. If things are going well, Are you using the current application Deaccession admissions, member dues, gift shop form? If not, that alone may When the collections policy is sales and small donations cover disqualify you. applied, there will probably be some ongoing operating expenses, but not 2+2=5? Check your math, spelling, pieces that don’t fit into the museum’s much more than that. When the big proofread, review. If we have to find future plans and have no chance at capital investment comes along—a new your mistakes, guess what we’ll think restoration. Deaccessioning or wing, a big exhibit, a major equipment of you? scrapping are the only options left. A restoration—other funding is needed. Don’t assume knowledge, explain like museum’s first priority should be to Museums switch into fund-raising we are a stranger. find a home for the piece where it will mode, and hope that grants will fill Is your project actually eligible, or is receive proper attention. With that end most of the gap. Grants are the most that wishful thinking on your part? in mind, the B&O Museum tantalizing yet elusive of funding Less is more – would you want to read deaccessioned the following pieces in sources. Free money, yet hard to get. all this – times 70 other applications? September 2010. They can be viewed at Writing a good grant application is Good project, but bad photos doesn’t www.rpca.com/pdfs/bomuseumdecessio a sobering undertaking. Truthfully help your cause. nlist.pdf. answering the standard questions asked Start Early, Start Early, Start Early! Too B&O Baggage Car #463, MOW by grantors requires you to really many applications are prepared at the #X4408 (ACF 1914) examine whether your project is worth last minute, and they look it. B&O bay window Caboose #C-1826 funding. Try answering the following (built as a by Haskell & questions. REALITY CHECK: LONG- TERM Barker 1916, rebuilt as a caboose Do you do something important? Can SURVIVAL OF RAILROAD 1941) you show the need? Can you show MUSEUM COLLECTIONS C&O #84563, converted to how your impact is significant? It may Presenter: Dave Shackelford Chief MOW camp car #X576 (ACF 1923) be important to you, but why would Curator, B&O Railroad Museum B&O steel Boxcar #278366, converted anyone else care about your project? to MOW #910530 (Baltimore Car & Is there competition? If ten other Can your museum support its entire rolling stock collection over the long Foundry 1943) museums doing the same type of B&O steel double door Boxcar project, maybe it’s not worth funding. run? Few museums can answer yes to that question. The B&O Museum has #471244 (B&O Dubois Shops 1960) Can you provide a detailed description B&O Troop sleeper/ Express car/ of your audience? Why this audience? more resources than most, but we are taking a hard look at what should stay MOW camp car #1748 (Pullman Are there other audiences you expect to 1943) serve in the future? and what should go. It starts with the collections policy. 20 B&O MOW weed burner #WB-23 educate first responders. backup systems are required. If there is (Woolery Machine 1950) There are four phases to emergency a bus to be chartered, has that B&O Crossover bridge car #XB-2 preparedness: arrangement been worked out in (B&O 1957), built from old tender Planning advance? If a backup locomotive, train frame and flatcar to serve as bridge to Response or streetcar is needed, has it been a loading dock. Recovery designated and is it ready to go? Baltimore Gas & Electric Narrow Restoration Once people are evacuated, where gauge wood coal hopper #8 (unknown should they be taken? A place with builder 1890) PLANNING shelter, water and power should be Roofed flat Cars with seating (3) Planning includes the documents designated in advance. ( 1959-1963) you probably already have that dictate Any incident response requires Recommendations operational policies and procedures. good communication. Radios should be Know your institution’s goals and The old saying that the railroad rule working and tested for reception objectives book was written in blood is true. So everywhere along the line. Since radios Know your collection and how it fits many of the rules were created in may not always be available, staff into achieving these goals response to past accidents and injuries. carrying cel phones should leave their Have the system in place for making The first step in emergency numbers at the sign-in location. critical collections decisions preparedness is to review your Follow your policies! operating rules and procedures to see if RECOVERY Implement a basic maintenance they are adequate to prevent Once the immediate threat to life program emergencies if properly followed. and property has passed, the recovery Prioritize your projects The next step is to make sure those stage begins. Damage must be assessed Fund raise or find grant funding for rules are not ignored. Even if all the and an estimate made of the resources specific restoration projects to help normal rules are in effect and enforced, needed to remove crippled equipment off-set costs: including staffing and more is needed to prepare for and make repairs. There will be reports project hard costs emergencies, an Emergency to file with the insurance company and Consider partnerships and alternative Preparedness Manual. perhaps government agencies. win-win solutions Next comes hazard assessment It must be determined when it will Deaccession carefully! planning. Hazards are assessed first in be feasible to restore normal operations. terms of severity: This may require trial runs first. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 1. Catastrophic Depending on the severity of the PLANNING 2. Critical incident, it may need to be explained to Presenter: Eric Madison, 3. Marginal your staff and the public, along with National Capital Trolley Museum 4. Negligible notifications of service interruption and Hazards are then rated by service resumption. Get ready, because bad things frequency of occurrence: happen. At some point, the chances are Frequent RESTORATION OF SERVICE good that some sort of emergency will Probable Once service is restored, it’s time occur at your museum or tourist Occasional to revisit the emergency plan to see railroad. Will you be ready to respond Remote what worked and what didn’t, and the to it? Will you be able to minimize the Improbable plan should be modified accordingly. damage and cost? Will you be able to From these measurements one can There should be an after-action report recover quickly and return to normal construct a Hazard Resolution Matrix that documents the incident and the operations? There are limits to what you that combines severity with frequency. response to it. This should include an can control, but proper emergency Having identified potential hazards accounting of the cost. It may be planning can minimize the bad things. and preventative measures, the next step important to communicate some of Let’s take a routine service in the planning process is training. Your these findings with the public, although interruption that falls far short of being employees and/or volunteers must be as this should be done carefully to avoid a disaster, but is still a disruption that well versed in the potential hazards as admitting to liability. To avoid further has the potential to require medical your management, because their actions incidents, another round of training is attention. A streetcar or train is running are the proof of the pudding. However, probably needed. on your railroad and breaks down for internal training alone is not enough. some reason. Immediate repairs aren’t Bring in the first responders, the police RESOURCES possible, so the train can’t move. The and fire fighters, so they know what Volpe National Transportation weather is hot. It’s a long walk back to you’re doing and are familiar with your Systems Center. Critical Incident the starting point, or maybe it’s too far operations and physical plant. Management Guidelines. April 17, 1998 to walk. There are passengers with The final essential component of U.S. Department of Transportation: mobility limitations who can’t even get emergency planning is media Research and Special Programs off the train. Radio communications are management. Determine in advance Administration. The Public inconsistent. What do you do? who is authorized to talk to the media. Transportation System Security and Now imagine something much Controlling the media response can Emergency Preparedness Planning worse. The museum floods, or there is a prevent wrong information from getting Guide. Washington, D.C. Government fire. The track washes out. The train out. It can reduce future claim exposure Printing Office. 2003 derails and overturns. The train hits a and it can reassure the public that an U.S. Department of Transportation: car at a grade crossing. A tornado accident wasn’t the result of neglect or Research and Special Programs removes the car house roof. A shoddy management on your part. Administration. Hazard Analysis passenger has a heart attack. Are you Guidelines For Transit Projects. John A. ready for any of these? INCIDENT RESPONSE Volpe National Transportation Systems You need an emergency plan, to If an incident happens, it is usually Center, Cambridge, MA 02142-1093. protect your visitors, staff, collections necessary to evacuate passengers and Department of Defense. Standard and facilities. Beyond that you need it staff. The planning process should Practice for System Safety. MIL-STD- to reduce the risk of litigation, and to determine how to do that, and what 882D, February 10, 2000. 21 degrees above the lowest temperatures. Number them and the relevant parts of BEARING A check of one bearing indicated the the motor so things go back from TEMPERATURES Babbitt metal was beginning to whence they came. disintegrate. The motor armature By Donald Curry, bearings had a 15-degree spread from Seashore Trolley Museum coolest to warmest with the latter being HERITAGE RAILNEWS only 99 degrees, nothing to be Inexpensive (under $100) infra-red concerned about. Alco-Brooks Railroad Display non-contact digital thermometers make Dallas streetcar #434—Journal it so easy to take bearing temperatures Dunkirk, NY temperatures ranged from 85 to 108 Baltimore & Ohio 0-6-0 #1190 that it is now our regular practice to degrees. Some pieces of babbitt had take the temperatures of all truck (Alco Brooks 1904) has been acquired been found in some journal boxes so we from the Mad River & NKP Museum in (journal) and motor (armature and axle) decided to examine the bearing bearings during operation. It’s not just Bellevue, Ohio, where it had been condition of each, something we hadn’t displayed since 1979. The engine joins the temperature but the rise that’s done except in truck overhauls. We important. The temperature of some Boston & Maine 0-6-0 #444 (Alco found in three of the eight that the Brooks 1916) and vintage freight cars bearings doesn’t change at all and Babbitt was either detached others rise very rapidly, indicating on display at the Chautauqua County (unsoldered) from the shell or had Fairgrounds in Dunkirk. trouble. squeezed out around the axle. We did Examples: find in all eight that the bearings had Colorado Railroad Museum Wheeling curved-side streetcar worn longitudinally between 3/8 and Golden, CO #639—On two test trips we ran the car half and inch. Specifications call for A summary of 2010 as fast as possible non-stop to maximize 1/16 inch space between the bearing and accomplishments: any problems. Starting temp was 75 the ends of the journal. This means the Another year of record attendance degrees. By the end of the run, temps axles can wander from side to side, The Rio Grande Southern wood ranged from 91 to 132 degrees, with the exaggerating any mis-alignment of the business car Rico restoration was left-hand journal on axle number 4 trails. So we have pulled the car from operationally completed. being the highest. Bluing was used to service and plan to re-babbitt all the The CB&Q caboose was completed, indicate high spots in the Babbitt, the journal bearings. remodeled as an event venue bearing contour was corrected, and on One caution when using the complete with appropriate interior, the next test run the temperature rise thermometer. Internal heat can take forced air heat and historically proper was only minor. awhile to be readable at the surface. We exterior. Connecticut open car #303—On had just installed two overhauled Much progress was made on the kitchen two different days, two different test traction motors in our Chicago streetcar car project. The car now has truss journals on axle number 3 rose 8 and 21 #225 and wanted to make sure the rods, rebuilt trucks, couplers and draft motor axle bearings gear, as well as a new roof and weren't too tight. cupola. As we got further Castings for building 2 sets of out the line we passenger car trucks were completed. noticed squeals of a Cosmetic restoration of two of the hot bearing exhibit speeders (motorcars) was although the completed. temperature we Union Pacific steam locomotive 0-6-0 measured with the No.4455 received paint, lettering and heat gun didn't details. Bids were prepared for the indicate a installation of a new boiler jacket, and significant rise. We material purchased to begin the quickly got the car reconstruction of the cab windows back on the pit and and doors. actually put our The UP coach received lettering, and hand on the bearing the restoration of the interior window housings in blinds is ongoing. question. Now we Began cosmetic restoration of narrow could feel the heat-- gauge 2-8-0 locomotive No.318. 175 degrees and There were many small repair, climbing. The maintenance and restoration projects, problem was these such as repainting the exterior and motors were of the refinishing the interior of the Tahoe heavy over-built Car; repairs and paint (again) on style and it took coaches No.280 and No.284; repairs time for the heat to and paint on RPO No. 60; application work its way down of linseed oil on several gondolas in the heavy axle or preparation for painting; repairs and through the massive paint on the excursion cars prior to the motor axle bearing Thomas event; maintenance and cap. operation of No. 346; maintenance The biggest and operation of Shay No.12; lesson learned was repainting, maintenance and operation never mix up motor of 2-8-0 No.40. bearings and/or New Railfriends e-newsletter to inform their halves. Museum Volunteers. 22 allocated $95,000 to repair the fire- damaged Lobato Trestle. With this allocation, there appears to be sufficient money to complete the repairs. Erie Lackawanna Preservation Society, Scranton, PA The society has acquired Lackawanna dining car #469 (Budd 1949). The car was built for the Phoebe Snow . Subsequent owners were the James Strates Show in 1970, Butterworth Tours in 1975, Morrison- Knudson in 1978, Memphis Transportation Museum in the 1980s and the Tennessean Dinner Train in 2007. The car is operational and in good condition. The society has also acquired three Comet I commuter coaches (Pullman- Standard 1971) from New Jersey Exporail in St. Constant, Quebec, has acquired this model Canadian National Transit. GP9 for its miniature railroad. Exporail photo. Exporail, St. Constant, QU 30+ new volunteers have become active Connecticut Trolley Museum During 2010, Exporail carried out a since the beginning of 2010 East Windsor, CT $1.3 million capital improvement Completed American Association of The museum has acquired a project called Plan B. Hays Station has Museums Museum Assessment Bangor & Aroostook side-door wood received all new windows and doors, Program (MAP) including site visit in caboose. It was formerly part of the new floors, is fully climate controlled to order to identify collection Mansfield Depot Restaurant in today’s archival standards and has been management strengths and Mansfield, CT. brought up to code. The second floor weaknesses. has been made into exhibition space Two new books published: Annual No. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad permitting the installation of the 30 - Age of the Decapods, and Denver Chama, CO Wellington Tower train control panels Street Railways Vol. III. Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has and the display of more artifacts for

23 barn would be twice the size of the present barn and would be connected to the Southern Railway of British Columbia (the former BC Electric) by a new rail spur. The city will front the $2.9 million to buy the land and build the new car barn and related facilities. The current site will revert to city park land. Friends of the East Broad Top Here’s an edited recap of the Friends 2010 activities, reprinted from its newsletter. “In Rockhill Furnace, FEBT volunteers working on the boiler house removed-from below-the damaged rafters and roof from three sides of the boiler house roof. The supporting framework for the ventilation cupola was repaired, too, as new rafters, subroofing and metal roofing were installed. The last roof panel will be replaced in 2011. The Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec have completed the multi-year restoration The FEBT volunteers repairing the of Rio Grande narrow gauge caboose #0503. Friends of the C&TS photo. exterior walls and windows of the main shop complex ran into unexpected public viewing. A new large viewing shed at his Dunrobin Castle, along with difficulties this year when they started window has been installed on the #58A. Fort Steele is also sending work on the southern portion of the west second floor giving visitors a view of double truck British Railways coach wall of the locomotive shop. Severe the turntable and yards. #E3733 (BR Derby Works 1954) to the deterioration to the sills and posts Building 5 has received new doors Scottish Railway Museum. supporting this section of wall required and a resealed aluminum roof. immediate reinforcement. These repairs Additional lighting has been installed Fort Wayne Railroad Historical restore structural integrity to this portion along with new stairways and Society, Fort Wayne, IN of the building. Repairs to the windows interpretive signs for each piece of Norfolk Southern has donated in this section of the main shop equipment on display. There are new former Nickel Plate SD9 locomotive continued in 2010, despite the need to station gardens in front of the Angus #358 (EMD 1957). It was retired in undertake the unanticipated structural Pavilion, Hays Station and Delson 2007 as NS #57 and is currently not repairs. Work on the south end of the Station. operational. building will continue next year (2011). Maritime Railway 4-6-0 #5 Meanwhile, work at the locomotive (Pittsburgh 1896) has been cosmetically Fraser Valley Heritage Rail Society coaling tipple at the south end of the restored and is on display inside the Surrey, BC Rockhill Furnace yard advanced with Angus pavilion. The Surrey city council has installation of a new metal roof over the Exporail has taken delivery of a approved plans to relocate the Society’s concrete coal bin. model Canadian National GP9 car barn to a new home in Cloverdale, a FEBT volunteers began restoration locomotive for use on its outdoor few miles east of the existing site. The of EBT steel boxcar #174, focusing on miniature railway. restoration of British Columbia Electric replacing the car’s wood frame roofing interurban #1225 is expected to be and subroofing.” Folsom, El Dorado & Sacramento completed in 2011. The new three-car Historical Railroad, Folsom, CA The Pacific Locomotive Association has donated a Burro Crane Model 30 (Cullen-Friestedt 1944). The track-mounted crane can lift 15,000 poounds and is operational. Fort Steele Steam Railway Fort Steele, BC Two pieces of British history are returning home from Canada. The railway has sold Highland Railway 0-4-4-T #397 Dunrobin (Sharp-Stewart 1895) and Highland Railway 4-wheel coach #58A (Highland 1909) to the Beamish Museum in the UK. The engine was built for the Duke of Sutherland, a Highland Railway director, to haul his private train. Famous figures rode its footplate, including King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, King The Fort Smith Trolley Museum owns Frisco 2-8-2 #4003 (Alco 1919), which it Alfonso of Spain, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Winston Churchill. It was kept in a decorated with lights for the holidays. Fort Smith Trolley Museum photo. 24 Friends of the 261 This detailed update on Road 4-8-4 #261 is reprinted with permission from Northern Lines, the Friends’ newsletter. “Boiler work on 4-8-4 No. 261 is progressing with a goal of having the work completed by the end of 2010. Steve Sandberg, chief operating officer of the Friends of the 261 and North Star Rail, said that “significant progress” has been made in the rebuild work that will result in 261 operating again. Boiler work on the 261 is relatively straightforward – it simply takes hard work and long hours to get the job done. The locomotive has a modern boiler, which as steam locomotives go has seen relatively little service – the boiler was in use from 1944 to 1954 and in excursion service from 1993 to 2008. Advances in boiler technology by the 1940s give 261 a huge advantage over other restored steam engines. Comparing, for example, Soo 4-6-2 No. 2719 in Duluth, built in 1923, and 261, built in 1944, the technology of the boilers is completely different, even though both engines were built by Alco. The Museum of Transportation in St. Louis has restored Missouri Pacific Sandberg said the ultrasound #750 (ACF 1940) inside and out. MOT photo. inspection of the boiler shell is complete and the boiler looks good – in all areas the boilerplates are thicker than the original specifications. This is due to the fact that in the 1940s, when the boiler was manufactured, boiler manufacturers erred on the side of rolling the steel a bit thicker than specifications called for. For example, a builder’s spec may have called for a one 1-inch thick boiler plate, but the manufacturer would roll the plate slightly larger, maybe 1.15 inches. If the manufacturer had rolled the steel thinner than one inch, it would have to be scrapped and the work would have to be done over, so steel makers always rolled steam locomotive boilers slightly thicker than what was called for – and that’s what was found on 261. One of the big jobs on the boiler is the flexible staybolts, which hold the firebox in place in the boiler as it is surrounded by water. There are three parts to the flexible staybolt inspection process. There are the bolts themselves, which are screwed into the firebox. These flexible staybolts allow the firebox to expand and contract as the temperature rises and falls. The bolt head rests in a staybolt sleeve, which is on the exterior of the firebox. On top of the sleeve is a staybolt cap that prevents steam from escaping the water portion around the firebox. All 3,000 flexible actual staybolts were found to have itself has been sandblasted and a special staybolt caps were removed, inspected broken and needed replacement. Also epoxy paint that can withstand high and replaced as needed. Crews also replaced were about 30 wasted boiler temperatures was applied to both the replaced 50 to 60 flexible staybolt studs. The studs are used to hold interior and exterior of the boiler. The sleeves on the boiler that had rusted or appliances such as the dynamo in place process of reinstalling appliances and were damaged, but only two of the on the outer boiler shell. The boiler other items on the boiler exterior has 25 Halton County Radial Railway Milton, ON Relay Ties and Rail September 11, 2010 saw the grand opening of the Sir Adam Beck Centre, otherwise known as Carbarn 4. In anticipation of the event, museum volunteers engaged in a major site cleanup that netted 180,000 pounds of steel and other metal, worth over $50,000. The rehab of Canadian Pacific caboose #437123 is complete. The car is being chartered for private parties and other premium fare service. Museum, Union, IL Chicago Burlington & Quincy California Zephyr Silver Pony (Budd 1948) has arrived at the museum. Monticello Railway Museum Monticello, IL The museum has acquired already begun. work is expected to take at least until Wabasha lightweight coach #1420 from According to Steve Sandberg, in spring 2011.” the Roanoke Chapter NRHS. The car the days of steam wheels had to be was built for the Boston & Maine and turned or “trued” about every 100,000 Great Smoky Mountains Railroad was later sold to the Wabash. miles. Why? One factor is the simple Bryson City, NC wear of the wheels on the rail. Another The railroad has acquired a Museum of Transportation is wheel wear caused by the tremendous Swedish 4-6-0 built in 1913, nine St. Louis, MO thrust coming from the piston and main coaches and a Budd RDC-1 from the The museum expects to begin rod to the wheels. Over time, this great Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad construction on a new visitors’ center in force causes the driving wheels to wear Preservation Society in Unity, Maine. March 2011. The building will feature unevenly, and instead of being round, exhibition, programming, retail, and Greenville (South Carolina) dining facilities in approximately they become “egg shaped.” Once the Chapter NRHS wheels are out of round, the wear 11,000 square feet of space. Opening is The chapter has opened the Hub anticipated around January 1, 2012. compounds and accelerates. Sandberg City Railroad Museum in the 1905 likened it to have the wheels on your Grading is being finished for an Spartanburg, SC Southern depot. The extension of the streetcar loop that will automobile out of balance. The tires museum occupies the former baggage wear unevenly, and the damage spreads serve a station located on the second room. Amtrak still uses the waiting floor mezzanine level of the Earl C. to the automobile’s brakes, alignment, room and the Spartanburg Convention etc. Eventually the machine, be it a car Lindburg Automobile Center. St. Louis and Visitors Bureau is also a building County Department of Parks and or a steam locomotive, can tear itself tenant. apart unless the wear is stopped. In the Recreation grading crew, museum case of the 261, as nearly as can be volunteers and staff will construct the determined the wheels were last turned extension. in 1952. The engine then ran into 1954 when it was retired. Approximately 30,000 to 35,000 miles have been put on 261 since the last rebuilding in 1993, so it is estimated the locomotive was close to the 100,000-mile mark on its driving wheels when it last operated in 2008. Using a special measuring device called a Pi Tape, the restoration crew has measured each of the driving wheels circumference and diameter, and was able to determine that the main driver is roughly 1/8 of an inch smaller than the other drivers. To get the wheels back into round, they have been shipped to a local machine shop near the Minneapolis Junction Shop. Because a local shop has been found for this highly technical work, it will save approximately $10,000 to $20,000 that would have been paid to ship the wheels by truck to a shop outside Saved from a post-retirement fate as a Chinese restaurant, Canadian Pacific Minnesota. The last week of October office car Alberta has been restored and is now displayed in the West Coast saw the first of 261’s driving wheels Railway Association’s new roundhouse in Squamish, BC. WCRA photo. delivered for turning the tires. That 26 New York Museum of well as its M-7 MU cars.. payment of $46,232 on the $300,000 Transportation, West Henrietta, NY land contract for seven acres. Recently the museum lost its water Railroad Museum of New England Pere Marquette 2-8-4 #1225 needs supply and had to drill a well to bring Thomaston, CT its federally required 15-year rebuild, water to its restrooms. Under federal The Connecticut Department of which will cost $600,000. A federal law, this made them a “public water Transportation has donated F7ms #6690 grant has been secured to cover supplier”, triggering additional and 6692. The locomotives were built $347,000, on the condition that SRI requirements, including installation of a by EMD for the Southern Pacific, and contributes $280,000 in matching funds. chlorination system and water testing went to the Wellsville, Addison and To date, $120,000 in matching funds on all days they are open to the public. Galeton upon their initial retirement. has been raised. Chlorination involves a chlorine The Port Authority of Allegheny solution tank, an injection pump that is County rebuilt them for Pittsburgh Southeastern Railway Museum actuated automatically when the well commuter service, and eventually sold Duluth, GA pump runs, and two 120-gallon them to CDoT, which painted them in The museum has hired an retention tanks to provide dwell time for the New Haven “McGinnis” colors. education coordinator, who has the chlorine to work before it arrives at They have been stored unserviceable implemented a series of children’s the sinks. The building housing the since 2001. programs aimed at public and private schools, preschools, home school system much be heated to avoid winter Railroad Museum of freezing. The daily water tests must be groups, moms groups, and scout groups. Portsmouth, VA All include a hands-on experience with recorded and submitted monthly to the This new museum is anticipated to county health department. artifacts, and most include a train ride open by summer 2011. It features a and program-specific tour. All Niagara Railway Museum Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 that was one programs are $7 per student. For further Fort Erie, ON of the “lost engines” that spent decades information, contact Beth Kovach, at The museum has moved into the in a Roanoke scrap yard. The engine education@southeasternrailwaymuseu former Canadian National diesel shop has been cosmetically restored. Also on m.org. in Fort Erie, ON. Two tracks have been display are two Norfolk & Western mail installed in the building, along with a cars, a Wabash dining car and a Norfolk West Coast Railway Association small amount outside. There isn’t a rail Southern caboose. Squamish, BC The restoration of Canadian Pacific connection yet. The building had been Smiths Falls Railway Museum vacant for years and was vandalized. business car Alberta (CP Angus Shops Smiths Falls, ON 1929) is complete and the car was The group is working to secure the The museum has acquired building. Three pieces of rolling stock dedicated on January 11. The car was Canadian National snowplow #55400 retired in the 1960s and became a have been trucked to the site and moved (National Steel Car 1935). indoors. restaurant in . It was still Steam Railroad Institute mounted on its trucks, but had a hole in Orange Empire Railway Museum Owosso, MI one side plus the installation of a Perris, CA The Institute now owns the land it kitchen that had to be removed. The Ward Kimball photo collection sits on outright, following a final The association has raised $1.1 has been donated to the museum. It million in 2010. includes about 1500 black and white prints and 500 negatives, some of which BOILER TUBES - FLUE TUBE date to the Civil War. 2.000” OD - 2.250” OD Penn DOT grants The Pennsylvania Department of 5.000” OD - 5.375” OD - 5.500” OD Transportation (PennDOT) provides annual freight rail grants. In 2010 they Tubes are available in : distributed $32.5 million to help fund 38 freight-rail projects in 28 counties. WELDED .750” thru 5.50” OD The funding comes from state capital ASME/ASTM SA 178 Grade – A bond dollars approved in the general fund budget. This year two of the awards will have the byproduct of SEAMLESS .750” thru 4.50” OD helping tourist railways. Grant awards include $1 million to the Strasburg Rail ASME/ASTM SA 192 / SA 210 Road to construct and rehabilitate track, COPPER & STEEL FERRULES and rehab a rail bridge. The Wellsboro & Corning Railway, which runs the ======Tioga Central tourist trains on its line, will receive $700,000 to reconstruct ANDERSON TUBE COMPANY, INC. track and turnouts, install ties and 1400 Fairgrounds Road surface track. Hatfield, PA 19440 Railroad Museum of Long Island 800-523-2258 215-855-4147 fax Riverhead, NY The museum has acquired the Long Contact : Rick Witte [email protected] Island Rail Road’s GP-38-2 locomotive www.atube.com simulator. GP-38s have been retired from the roster, so the simulator is surplus. The railroad retains simulators All Tubes are Made in the U S A for its DE30 and MP-15 locomotives, as 27 WHAT WOMEN WANT First Class Railroad Pins and Patches (IN A MUSEUM OR TOURIST RAILWAY) By Becky Morgan Reprinted from RyPN.org Interchange attractive it will be to families. It 4. Is there any way for people who In the excellent thread about doesn't have to be as spotless as use wheelchairs, crutches and canes to minorities, I mentioned other factors Disneyland, and if you ask me soot get around? It isn't always possible, and that made me decide whether or not to doesn't count as dirt and coal smoke is most of us who use mobility aids take our young son to an perfume. Are eating areas clean enough understand that, but it's a nice touch if attraction/museum/event. Here's my list. to make you use them? The vending you can manage. We saw a man about Not all of this was conscious; women machine may have picked up an to ask for a refund on tickets he'd tend to judge without explaining why, interesting patina of diesel fuel on the bought way ahead at a event once. A but if you ask, we can quantify what outside, but is the stuff inside family member in a wheelchair had we're looking for: reasonably fresh, like acquired after Bill come along unexpectedly, and they 1. Is the area safe? Men sometimes Clinton's presidency? Would a snack didn't want to leave her out. He was underestimate this. I know there are a bar pass a surprise health inspection by absolutely thrilled to find they had a lot of great trains around Stockton a not too picky inspector? wheelchair lift. Back in my cane-using Tower. My going there alone, however, 3. Bathrooms are of little concern days I was about to climb a good-sized especially with a small child in tow, to male . Anatomical necessity flight of stairs when an alert staffer would have been begging for trouble of makes it a tad more important to politely asked me if I'd like to use the some kind. Safety from assault or other women. Families have even more elevator since he was taking some stuff crime may not be the first thought in my trouble in this vein. Real bathrooms, up. Yes, thank you! Most of us don't mind, but it's always there in an rather than porta-johns, are best. like to cause a fuss, but if you offer unfamiliar area, much more so than it is CLEAN real bathrooms are even better. help, by golly we'll take it--and it to most men. This is doubly true with a Now mind, the paint can be old and the speeds things up for fully able people child in tow. If I'm in an area where floors bare concrete; nobody's asking behind us. women and children are on the street, I for flowers on the sinks and fancy 5. If someone on your staff is know it’s probably relatively safe. If I'm wallpaper, but is there running water, especially good with kids, it's good to the only woman in sight, it may not be. are there paper towels, are the stall have them in the jobs, and on the shifts, If there are no older men around, and all floors free of needles, used...uh, stuff, where you expect contact with children. of the men who are out are teenagers or and other things that would be Not everyone is socially adept, and I college aged, it most likely isn't. considered unhealthy? don't think we should all have to be, but 2. The cleaner the facility, the more

28 29 30 31 if you have a choice, don't put the Railway Association (TRAIN) passengers. Photo stops included. antisocial guy at the front desk or the Location: French Lick, IN Departs 9:00am, returns by 5:30pm woman who can't stand old people in Event Type: Meeting Cost: $29. No one under age 16 charge of escorting the senior bus tour. There will be separate ARM and permitted. Forget political correctness; that's TRAIN Board Meetings, as well as Meal at Laurel Inn (NOT Included in common sense. combined meetings to discuss future price) cooperation between the two Event Status is firm. organizations. RAILWAY HERITAGE Event status is firm. April 15 - 17, 2011: NRHS Spring PLANNING CALENDAR Conference March 27, 2011: 2nd Annual John H. Location: Champaign/Urbana, IL Compiled by the NRHS White Junior Conference on Railway Event Type: Meeting Heritage Event Status is firm. March 11, 2011: NRHS and Railfan & Location: French Lick, IN Railroad Magazine Pizza Party Event Type: Meeting April 15 - 17, 2011: Center for Railroad Location: Stockton, CA Hosted by the Indiana Railway Museum Photography & Art 2011 Annual Event Type: Pizza & Show Event status is firm. Conference For more information contact Jeff Location: TBD Smith at [email protected] or Steve April 2, 2011: Cotton Belt Rail Event Type: Conference Barry: [email protected] Historical Society Railroadiana Show & Event Status is planned. Event Status is planned. Sale at the Arkansas Railroad Museum Location: Pine Bluff, AR April 16, 2011: Chicago and Eastern March 12, 2011: Winterrail 2011 Event Type: Show and Sale Illinois Historical Society Location: Stockton, CA For more information contact: Elizabeth Location: Danville, IL - Danville Area Event Type: Meeting Gaines (870) 535-8819; website: Community College For more information: www.arrailroadmuseum.com Event Type: Spring Meeting 2011 www.winterail.com For information via email, contact For more information, visit: Event status is firm. [email protected] - please enter www.ceihs.org "Train Show 2011" in the email subject Date is firm; planning still in progress March 12, 2011: Winchester Chapter, line. NRHS - Annual Banquet Event Status is firm. May 12 - 14, 2011: Pennsylvania Event Type: Banquet Railroad Technical & Historical Society Event status is planned. April 3, 2011: White Water Valley Annual Meeting Railroad - All Caboose Excursion Location: Columbus, OH March 25 - 26, 2011: Joint Spring Location: Connersville, IN Event Type: Annual Meeting Meeting of the Association of Railway Event Type: Caboose Excursion - Contact information: www.prrths.com Museums (ARM) & the Tourist Seven cabooses, total seating 63 Event Status is firm.

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