Willy B. asked:
Every time someone asks about Steamtown’s projects, it seems that in every answer is “no set date” or “a few more years.” Along with cut backs on the amount of excursions, the situation over in Scranton is depressing! I thought it was a museum, not a junkyard! But I digress. What exactly is steamtown doing right? There has to be something good to say about the museum and steam restoration/maintenence facilities!
So there are no points of strength at all? Really? It is actually that depressing?! Can anyone else provide any points that don’t put down Steamtown?
Dear James H, you are not funny.
I know about the whole “pork barrell” thing, but I wasn’t asking what is wrong with Steamtown, I was asking what they are doing right.
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Every time someone asks about Steamtown’s projects, it seems that in every answer is “no set date” or “a few more years.” Along with cut backs on the amount of excursions, the situation over in Scranton is depressing! I thought it was a museum, not a junkyard! But I digress. What exactly is steamtown doing right? There has to be something good to say about the museum and steam restoration/maintenence facilities!
So there are no points of strength at all? Really? It is actually that depressing?! Can anyone else provide any points that don’t put down Steamtown?
Dear James H, you are not funny.
I know about the whole “pork barrell” thing, but I wasn’t asking what is wrong with Steamtown, I was asking what they are doing right.
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Kansieo.com
as usual scranton is all talk and no action/this goes back to 1957
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For some of us, just seeing the classics is more than enough. Being a model railroader, I look at all the modifications that were done after delivery from the builders. Companies like Hamilton, Baldwin and Lima all had a standard locomotive. I know PRR modified some locos at their Juniata shops. I can’t think of a better place to take my grand children and let them marvel at the age of steam. When we go north to Lancaster, I always stop in Strasburg even if it’s only to see the trains go by. It’s hard to describe a decapod or even a GG-1 to a child that’s never seen a train!
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well excuse me for having a sarcastic sense of humor. Not something I can control.What do want me to say about a place that might as well be moved to Canada with all the CN and CP equipment it uses?
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Steamtown was considered a “pork barrel project” in Congress, and might have lost its federal funding. Hence the increase in rotting and un-restored cars.
Some in congress also complained that most of the restoration project cars at Steamtown are Canadian, so they aren’t really “American” restorations (Canadian Pacific railway owns most of the rail lines around Steamtown, including the Tunkhannock viaduct.)
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