J.K. Trowling Wrote:
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> I couldn't agree more. The bigger concern is
> museums failing than preserving one of these
> historically insignificant locomotives. But Gen Z
> will just sit around doing stuff like this and
> creating wiki pages instead of volunteering
> somewhere to help preserve and restore what has
> already been set aside.

The huge RR museum in Illinois has wooden cars and Baldwin diesels that haven’t been touched in 30 years at least. Twenty years ago the cars had original paint and the wood was saveable. Now it’s too late. When they acquire yet another slightly different EMD variant (GP-13M or whatever) you know the other stuff will never be restored.

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> There are more than enough museums and
> preservation organizations dying to get people to
> help do anything let alone give money or patronize
> their excursion trains
> (beyond putting a drone in the air and post the
> photos on Facebook). This "we have to save
> everything" mindset does more harm than good.