railway museum quarterly TRAINLINE Number 8 Published cooperatively by the Tourist Railway Association Spring 2012 and the Association of Railway Museums Oh, yeah. Union Pacific E8 #942 shines in new paint at Orange Empire Railway Museum, following a multi-year restoration. Trailing it is a newly painted 4-car consist of Pullman sleeper National Scene (Pullman-Standard 1956), diner-buffet-lounge #4051, (Pullman, 1928), later modernized, parlor car #1530 (Pullman 1924), modernized 1954, and chair car #542 Requested (Pullman, 1926), rebuilt 1950. Service Address Marty Bernard photo. PERMIT NO. 1096 NO. PERMIT TWIN CITIES, MN CITIES, TWIN Confers, GA 30012 GA Confers, PAID 1016 Rosser Street Rosser 1016 U.S.POSTAGE 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. TRAIN Membership ARM Membership Membership is open to all railway museums, tourist Membership in the Association of Railway Museums is open railroads, excursion operators, private car owners, railroad to nonprofit organizations preserving and displaying at least related publishers, industry suppliers and other interested one piece of railway or street railway rolling stock to the public persons and organizations. TRAIN, Inc. is the only trade on a regularly scheduled basis. Other organizations, businesses association created to represent the broad spectrum of and individuals interested in the work of the Association are invited to become affiliates. For more details, or to report what is called “creative railroading”. address changes, please contact the Association of Railway Museums, P. O. Box 1189, Covington, GA 30015, 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, Strasburg Rail Road 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, Pennsylvania 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, Seashore Trolley Museum, Jeffery D. 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Box 1189, Covington, GA 30015, [email protected] Covington, GA 30015, (770) 278-0088 [email protected] Aaron Isaacs, Editor, 3816 Vincent Ave.. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410, [email protected] Editor: Aaron Isaacs (612) 929-7066, [email protected] The Association of Railway Museums is a Professional Affiliate Member of the American Association of Museums. Web site: http://www.traininc.org To advertise in Railway Museum Quarterly/Trainline, contact Aaron Isaacs at [email protected]. To download an advertising rate sheet, go to www.railwaymuseums.org/Static/documents/RateCard.pdf 4 5 PRESIDENTS’ accomplished, and now the final details along WM’s former route to Hendricks are being prepared. We ask you to and Thomas. The West Virginia REPORT watch for the information package this Railroad Museum is to be located in summer and for your active support as nearby Beverly, and the D&GV is By Bob LaPrelle, ARM and we move forward together for the good working to establish a 90-mile, 2-day Rick Burchett, TRAIN of all those involved in the field of excursion loop originating in Elkins. railway preservation. By joining Further, West Virginia has designated The boards of both ARM and together ARM and TRAIN into a the TRAIN met in St. Louis in March to railroad heritage as one of the state’s new Association of Tourist Railroads three critical tourism draws (the other work through the final steps needed to and Railway Museums, our goal is to prepare for the merger of our two two are natural resources and outdoor provide better value (more services for recreation). In other words, Elkins, organizations; the presentation and vote less cost) to our members and will be held at the November West Virginia, is an appropriate place contribute to the long term to put a Center dedicated to advancing conference in Montreal. A full sustainability of our industry. communication and documents package the railway heritage and tourism will be provided to all members of each industry. Little wonder there was organization in the summer, with MARKETPLACE immediate and strong support for the another opportunity for input and concept from the College and questions prior to holding the vote. Both By James Porterfield community alike. boards are unanimously recommending The Center has been invited to offer programming at D&E’s that the merger proceed, and have The New Center for followed through on the support given Augusta Heritage Center Railway Tourism (http://augustaheritagecenter.org/) in at last year’s conference in The press release headline read, Chattanooga. Summer 2012. Augusta’s mission to “Davis & Elkins Unveils Center for “encourage wider understanding and During our two days together, a Railway Tourism.” A one-page number of key issues were completed. practice of artistic expression found in document, it was sent March 14, 2012, local, regional, and ethnic traditional Thanks to the effort and work of Bob from Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, Opal and the Organization Working folk cultures” offers a number of West Virginia. Full disclosure: I’m the opportunities to showcase the life and Group, we were able to conclude plan director of the new Center and this of merger documents for the new work of railroaders. Likewise, there is column will describe what we’re trying an invitation to provide content for organization and a set of new bylaws. to accomplish with it. We really appreciate Bob’s hard work alumni mini-courses offered during in helping put these together and About D&E Homecoming in October 2012. And collectively the boards were able to Davis & Elkins College is a John Smith, president of the Durbin & bring these to a state of readiness. We coeducational liberal arts school with Greenbrier Valley Railroad, has also concluded a new attractive dues 750 students and a student/teacher ratio generously provided introductions to structure in readiness for 2013 and a of 12:1. Opened in 1904, it has a others and invitations to events in plan for integration of the two boards railroad connection: it was founded by Elkins and throughout West Virginia, into a single transition board comprised Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen as well as becoming the Center’s first of an equal number of directors from Benton Elkins, two United States donor. each to the two predecessor Senators who built the first railroad into Serving Three Purposes organizations. Thanks again to Don the area. And, it offers a major in The Center for Railway Tourism will Evans for facilitating us through the Recreation Management and Tourism. focus its attention on three activities: process. Elkins, the adjoining community, is •Providing a cadre of college- A considerable amount of time was the Randolph County seat. Once a busy educated specialists in railway heritage allocated to the naming of the Western Maryland Railway hub, today tourism. organization. After much work, debate it is served by the West Virginia •Developing programs of interest to and discussion, the decision was to go Central, which interchanges with CSX, the general public that can be replicated straight forward and simple, and to and the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley elsewhere. reflect what we really are all Railroads, which provide freight and •Providing leadership, guidance and about…..the name Association of excursion service. A city of 7,000, it is materials to the railway heritage Tourist