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From: "Frank Reilly" <ftr4444_@_hotmail.com>
To: Dlw1el2_@_aol.com
Subject: Steamtown - Tri State Collection
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:42:26 -0400
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Bob,
     For the first time in several years I went to the Tri-State meeting to 
hear Pat McKnight last month.  He provided very detailed listings of what 
they had alread catalogued and I was totally surprised and delighted with 
his work.  He explained how he has 50 volunteers doing the cataloging and 
inputting what they catalog on a computer file so it will be available on 
line "some day in the not too distant future"!
     Since I'm not active in Tri-State, but remain a member, a committee 
looking into the disposition of the collection contacted me several times 
for my opinion.  They did it as a courtesy, but also wanted my opinion since 
I spear-headed the saving of the collection.  I said that I believed the 
only place where it could be safely archived and promptly catalogued was 
Steamtown and I strongly urged it be given to Steamtown, even though some 
people - including one Tri-State director - wanted it to stay in NJ.
      I remember the problem with getting the glass plate collection in 
Syracuse Univ. cataloged -- even with the great job you and a few other 
knowledgeable DL&W experts did.  I didn't want to see Rutgers or some other 
university get it and "bury it".  So I kept pushing hard for Steamtown.  
Thankfully all the Tri-State directors except one voted to donate it to 
Steamtown.
      After listening to Pat McKnight talk about the size of the collect 
donated by Tri-State, I sat there dumbfounded.  I had forgotten just how 
much we had saved.  It made me feel really good that it had a good home and 
a home where it is now available to the us researchers.
Frank




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