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Hello Tom - 

TW>>> theRailroad Museum where I volunteer two days a week. I
TW>>> have more 

DN>>> Which RR museum? There is one in Pennsylvania at
DN>>> Strasburg. 

->> You ain't seen nothing until you've visited the California
->> State Railroad Museum in Sacrament. Much history about the
->> building of the line over the Sierras and the Golden Spike
->> ceremony in Utah. And there's another great RR museum in
->> Carson City, NV. 

TW> YOU ain't seen anything until you have visited Strasburg.
TW> IT had the Bottomless pit of Federal Funding to build it.
TW> While Sacramento is very nice it is Much Better.
TW> Particualrly if you are interested in Steam. 

All 'engines' have some fascination for me since I was a child.
My uncle and a few older men I've worked with belonged to the
"Early Engine Club" and I was told they took them into the
Henry Ford Museum after hours, hooked compressors to some of
the steam engines there and ran them from compressed air to
demonstrate how they worked. I have also been told that the
Henry Ford Museum will make copies of full sized blueprints for
early locomotives available to members of the "Early Engine
Club" here in Michigan. 

One of the men I worked with inherited a scaled down working
steam locomotive from his father (with tracks) that was large
enough to pull children on boxcars with seats on them around
his yard using steam power. ;-)

I found out about his locomotive when I recognized what he had
been working on after-hours as an 8" drive wheel for a
locomotive.  Some of his father's parts were wearing out. :-)

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>      o/      Charles.Angelich      \o       ,
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