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RE: (erielack) ELHS collection

At 02:06 PM 2/27/2007, Fred Stratton wrote:
>How about we all donate money, and lots of it from not only members 
>but EL fans and enthusiasts and build an Erie Lackawanna Museum in 
>which archives and donated items could be displayed. I know this 
>seems far fetched or perhaps a dream but what are we going to leave 
>the railfan community after we are all gone and first or second 
>generation EL'ers who have had first hand contact with the RR are 
>just a memory. We need to do more than just talk, we need to show 
>what we feel. I'll donate money for a museum and would actually help 
>lay block, or nail wood or whatever it would take, let's just all 
>express ourselves and DO something instead of just talk.
>There, I've added my 2 cents worth and now let the hate email and 
>negativity begin.
>
>Fred Stratton
>MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line
>Salisbury, NC

Let me expand on Fred's idea with an offer, albeit a long term 
one.  Members of the French Creek Valley Railroad Historical Society, 
the Crawford County Historical Society, the Northwestern PA Tooling 
Association and the Crawford County Convention and Visitors Bureau (I 
think that's everyone) have formed an organization with the goal of 
opening the Northwestern PA Railroad and Tooling Heritage Center.  It 
will be a museum dedicated to the people who worked on the railroad 
and in the related tooling industries in and around Meadville.

One of the major goals is to provide adequate facilities for the 
CCHS's Erie Railroad collection.  I'm sure that, if the ELHS wanted, 
we could modify the design to include archives space for the ELHS collection.

Just one more stick to throw on the fire.

Pete Gifford
FCVRRHS, CCHS, ELHS, ELTHS, RCT&HS, R&LS, etc, etc


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