21638 - April 2011 Milepost.indd - Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

April 2011
April 2011
1

in this issue...
3 Curator’s Corner:
Accessibility and the
railroad museum of
pennsylvania library
and archives
by Nicholas Zmijewski and
Bradley K. Smith
10 Spawning the
Conservation
Movement: The
Railroad Fish Car
by Troy Grubb
14 Remembering the
Wellsville, Addison &
Galeton
by Jeremy F. Plant
20 News & Views
Cover Photo: Pennsylvania Railroad
H10s steam freight locomotive No. 7688,
built in 1915 by the Lima Locomotive
Works, rests under a stormy sky at the
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
(Ryan C. Kunkle Photo, courtesy of the
photographer)
Back Cover Photo: Shrouded in
morning mist: the Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania’s massive Nickel Plate
Berkshire S-2 steam locomotive No. 757,
built by the Lima Locomotive Works in
1944. (Ryan C. Kunkle Photo, courtesy
of the photographer)
Vol. 29, No. 1, April 2011
Pennsylvania Historical
& Museum Commission
Governor ...........................The Honorable
Tom Corbett
Chairman ..........................Mr. Wayne Spilove
Executive Director............Ms. Barbara Franco
Museum Director .............Mr. Charles Fox
Members ...........................Ms. Flora Becker
Ms. Rhonda R. Cohen Sen. Jim Ferlo
Ms. Laura S. Fisher Ms. Cheryl McClenney-Brooker
Mrs. Janet S. Klein Mr. Robert Matzie
Ms. Kathleen Pavelko Rep. Scott Petri
Sen. Joseph B. Scarnati Ms. Michele Sellitto
Mr. Ronald J. Tomalis Ms. Mary Clare Zales
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is administered
by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
with the active support of the Friends of the Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania.
Friends of the
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Board of Directors
President ...........................Mr. George Higgins
Vice President ...................Mr. James R. Rose
Secretary ...........................Mr. Grant S. Markley
Treasurer ...........................Mr. Joel E. Long
Members ...........................Mr. Albert Giannantonio
Mr. Craig Haberle Mr. Kent Haberle
Mr. Frederick R. Merck Mrs. Margaret S. Poore
Mr. Philip O. Ritter Mr. Emery Simkulak
Mr. Frank Tatnall Mr. David Wood
Ex Officio ..........................Mr. Charles Fox
The Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
(FRM) is a non-profit volunteer museum support
organization chartered by the Pennsylvania Historical
& Museum Commission. Mailing Address:
Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
P. O. Box 125
Strasburg, PA 17579
www.rrmuseumpa.org
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Advisory Council
President ...........................Mr. Ronald Bailey
Secretary ...........................Ms. Deborah Reddig
Members ...........................Mr. Christopher S. Barrett
Mr. William V. Hecker Mr. Edward S. Hoover
Mr. Rudy Husband Mrs. Donna L. Kreiser
Mr. Bennett Levin Mr. Jeffrey J. Majersky
Mr. Linn Moedinger Ms. Harriet Parcells
Mr. Paul Quinn Mr. Douglas Watts
Honorary
Dr. Jeremy F. Plant Mr. Bill Schafer
Mr. William Withuhn
Supporting
Mr. James Alexander Jr Mr. Edward B. Betz
Dr. John H. Bowman Mr. Robert R. Donecker
Mr. Charles Fox Mr. Robert J. Lawrence
Mr. Jere W. Schuler
Milepost
Managing Editor .......Deborah Reddig
Contributing Editors ....William R. Rowland
James Alexander Jr
Charles Fox
Photo/Technical Editors Ryan C. Kunkle
Nicholas Zmijewski
Design/Layout..........Heather Shaubach,
Cooper Printing, Inc.
Deborah Reddig
Printed by Cooper Printing, Inc., Lancaster, PA
Milepost is published by and for the Friends of the
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania five times a year at
Strasburg, PA 17579. Subscription to the Milepost is
included as part of annual membership in the FRM.
Mailed at Second-Class Postage rates at Strasburg, PA.
Postmaster: Please send change of address to:
P. O. Box 125, Strasburg, PA 17579
Phone: (717) 687-8628 • Fax: (717) 687-0876
Email: info@rrmuseumpa.org

Photo at Right: By
creating the archives annex
in 2000, the Museum more
than doubled the space
available to accommodate
library and archival
materials. This space
originally served as the
Museum’s wood shop.
(Bradley K. Smith Photo,
Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania, PHMC)
Photo Below: The Museum’s Union
Switch & Signal Collection includes
over 2,000 images depicting all
aspects of that company’s operations.
This photograph shows a woman
working at the company’s Swissvale
plant during World War II. (RR78.10,
MG199, Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania, PHMC)
Curator’s Corner
ACCESSIBILITY AND THE RAILROAD
MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES
by Nicholas Zmijewski and Bradley K. Smith
In addItIon to a world-class collectIon oF More tHan 100 HIstorIc
locomotives and railroad cars and a collection of over 12,000 smaller artifacts,
the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania cares for one of the largest and most
important library and archival collections of railroad history in the United
States. While the library and archives have been nearly a half-century in the
making, it is only within the last several years that the Museum has begun to
fully utilize the collection for the benefi t of the public.
Origins And Growth Of The Library And Archives
In 1963, the Pennsylvania state legislature authorized the creation of a state
railroad museum and, on February 18, 1965, the Pennsylvania Historical &
Museum Commission selected Strasburg as the site for this museum. Almost
immediately thereafter, agents of the Commission began collecting books and
documents in anticipation of the yet-to-be-built Museum. 1 Since construction
of a Museum building would not commence until 1972, they temporarily
accepted and held these early donations at the William Penn Memorial Museum
and the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg.
The Museum’s fi rst director, George Hart, led a crucial initiative by
purchasing more than $27,000 of ephemera and records at the Penn Central
Auction on March 20-23, 1972. Held at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia
and publicized as the largest auction of railroad memorabilia in history, the
sale featured an incredible array of Pennsylvania Railroad materials which one
April 2011
3

witness described as “mind boggling” and “wonderful.” 2 Hart recalled the following details of the auction in an oral
history interview:
“They had, prior to [the actual auction], an inspection period by anyone, which lasted one week, from a
Monday to a Friday. You could make an examination of the things that were there, in boxes and by lot
numbers. I went through every box and looked at everything there was… It took me from Monday until
Thursday to do that, and I reserved Friday, the last day, because as I went along I put items down that I
thought we’d be interested in or should have… When bidding time came, I knew what I was doing. I was
looking to see where the [other] bidders were, but there were about two hundred there and I could not pick
out the individuals.” 3
Current Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania board member/volunteer Philip Ritter was also in attendance
at the Penn Central Auction. He recalls the following:
“[George Hart] had two assistants and no one really knew who they were. They seemed to be well
organized and knew what they wanted. [They were] snapping stuff up one after the other. People sort of
assumed they were dealers buying to re-sell. As the auction went on, it became obvious that the ‘ordinary
collector’ was being left behind, and it looked like valuable historical material was being dispersed. When
the auction was over, [auctioneer] Bo Freeman announced that the fellow who was doing all this buying
represented the new Railroad Museum. There was just a moment’s pause, and then everyone clapped.” 4
The Penn Central acquisition,
consisting of 248 auction lots, put the
yet-to-be-constructed Museum on the
proverbial map, and highlights the
fact that the Pennsylvania Historical
& Museum Commission chose an
opportune time to begin a railroad
museum. 5 In the years between 1965,
when the Museum collected its first
archival materials, and 1976, the first
full year the Museum was open to the
public, nearly all of Pennsylvania’s
major railroads went defunct, and
new entities—most notably Amtrak
and Conrail—emerged. Many
railroaders that became employees
of these new corporations hoped to
4 April December 2011 2010
donate items in an effort to preserve
the legacy of their former employers.
At the same time, renowned railroad
historians like Walter Lucas, Munson
Paddock, Thomas Townsend Taber,
Clinton Andrews and Howard Hill
were downsizing their impressive
private collections. The result of
this transition was an unequalled
opportunity to acquire significant
railroad artifacts and archival
materials.
Following his success at the Penn
Central Auction, George Hart used
his personal connections to pursue
and acquire dozens of additional
collections, both by donation and
purchase, which he hoped to gather
into an important railroad archive of
manuscripts, corporate records and
ephemera. He described his vision as
“all working together to bring together
this collection of collections”. 6
Because of these efforts, the Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania evolved
into one of the largest archival
repositories of any Commission field
site, and one of the most significant
railroad archives in the United States.
The Museum archives now consists
of approximately 3,500 cubic feet
of corporate records, photographs,
negatives, manuscripts, maps, blue
prints, tracings, trade journals,
books, periodicals, ephemera, motion
picture films and audio recordings.
Particularly impressive collections
of corporate records include the
following:
• Mechanical engineering drawings
and surviving company records
Photo at Left: While perhaps better
known for our large collections of
photographs and drawings, the Railroad
Museum also cares for an equally
impressive collection of paper
ephemera items, including this 1950s
brochure advertising the infamous EMD
Aerotrain. (RR86.9, MG199, Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania, PHMC)

from the Wilkes-Barre-based
Vulcan Locomotive Works, one of
the nation’s leading manufacturers
of industrial locomotives, 1870-
1950 (100 cubic feet).
• Records of the Lehigh & Hudson
River Railroad, 1880-1980 (80
cubic feet); the Upper Merion &
Plymouth Railroad, 1950-70 (25
cubic feet); and segments of the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railway (60
cubic feet); the Reading Company
(20 cubic feet); the Maryland &
Pennsylvania Railroad, ca. 1880-
1979 (50 cubic feet) and the
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad,
1894-1931 (114 cubic feet)
• A major segment of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s
original library.
• Various historical records in
smaller quantities representing
over 1,200 different rail lines and
related manufacturers.
Museum archival holdings also
include more than a half million
historic railroading images preserved
in the form of glass plate negatives,
cellulose nitrate fi lm, safety fi lm,
transparency fi lm and photographic
prints. These images depict railroad
labor, travelers, steam and diesel
locomotives, rolling stock, depots,
yards, bridges, engine houses and
right-of-way views, dating from the
1850s to the present. Some of the
most impressive collections include
the following:
• The Herbert L. Broadbelt
Collection consists of 18,000
glass plate and fi lm negatives
documenting production from
1871 to 1954 at the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, the nation’s
leading locomotive manufacturer
with a global clientele.
• The Budd Company Collection
features approximately 13,000
images highlighting the activities
of this important Pennsylvania
manufacturer from the 1940s
through the 1960s, including a
number of early, large format color
images.
• The Union Switch & Signal
Collection contains over 2,000
images documenting signals,
centralized traffi c control, the
installation of hump yards and
railroad radio experiments.
• The Benjamin F. G. Kline
Jr Collection contains more
than 6,000 views of short line,
industrial and lumbering railroads
in Pennsylvania.
The drawback of being offered so
many excellent collections was that
the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
of the late 1970s and early 1980s
was inundated and overwhelmed by
archival materials. Despite important
contributions made by early
volunteers such as Richard Hain and
Thomas T. Taber III, staff members
of this era struggled to process
incoming acquisitions. Furthermore,
the Museum lacked adequate storage
space to accommodate such a large
and growing collection.
Fortunately, the Pennsylvania
Historical & Museum Commission
began devoting more staff resources
toward managing the Railroad
Museum’s collections and, in fact,
Commission archivists processed
554 cubic feet of Museum archival
material between 1983 and 1985.
After their incorporation in 1983,
the Friends of the Railroad Museum
of Pennsylvania also began making
signifi cant volunteer and paid staff
contributions to the processing of
archival material. In addition, staff
remedied the storage space shortage in
2000 when they transferred the wood
shop from the basement of the main
building to the restoration shop, and
then obtained the funding to install
high-density compact shelving in the
vacated space to create the Museum’s
“archives annex.”
Making The Library And
Archives Accessible
The American Association of
Museums (AAM) document, A
Higher Standard, details the standards
of a professionally administered
Museum and among them lists that a
professional museum “demonstrates
a commitment to providing the public
Photo above: Friends of the Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania volunteers Bob
Lawrence and Loretta Harrison, and others,
have contributed countless hours toward
cataloguing library and archival material
in LADRS. In the background to the right
are thousands of photographic prints
representing Pennsylvania’s many
railroads and related industries. (Bradley
K. Smith Photo, Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania, PHMC)
April 2011
5

with physical and intellectual access
to the museum and its resources.” 7
with physical and intellectual access
With this standard in mind, the
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
has always striven to make its
collections accessible to anyone
interested. The process of making
collections accessible begins by
establishing intellectual and physical
control—simply put, determining
where each collection came from,
what each entails and where each is
located within the Museum—and then
developing paper or computerized
fi nding aids that can point users to
these collections.
The Museum’s efforts to make
archival collections accessible began
in 1986 when volunteers started
building databases for archival
collections using an Apple IIe
computer. In the interest of building
upon this work, the Friends of the
6 April 2011
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
began converting large batches of this
data to PC format in 1997. It was also
at this time that the Commission and
the Friends began to formulate plans
for a more comprehensive archives
database which they would call
“LADRS,” the Library And Archives
Data Retrieval System.
LADRS was a creation of several
individuals including former Museum
director David Dunn and FRM
volunteers Jim Alexander, George
Burbage, Robert Donecker and the
late Earle Compton. They recognized
that the Museum needed more than
simple fi nding aids. It required a
more complex management system
that would meet the needs of both
the using public—with a special
understanding of railroad history
and nomenclature—and of the
institutional standards of modern
museums. Fortunately, critical
skill sets came together as staff and
volunteers contributed to the general
management and planning, while
applying their collective knowledge
of computer technology and historical
documentation standards.
After reviewing several commercial
systems, the Museum decided to build
LADRS using a database application
called Inmagic DB Textworks,
which staff and volunteers initially
populated with pre-existing data from
older databases. The completion of
LADRS gave the Railroad Museum
of Pennsylvania an excellent tool for
establishing intellectual and physical
control over its archival collection,
and a successful model for presenting
this information to users, but the
PHMC/FRM partnership continued
to recognize the need for growth and
enhanced public access.
The North American Railway
Foundation provided several years
of critical funding that augmented
the Friends’ efforts to underwrite the
computer infrastructure necessary to
support LADRS. With their support,
the Museum acquired new hardware,
software and the temporary staff
assistance needed to scan images
and documents. By capturing highresolution
electronic images of paper
and fi lm items, the Museum has
reduced the need to handle delicate
original items while providing
thumbnail images which are easily
accessible to researchers through
LADRS.
While initial search capabilities
into this database were only available
internally, the Museum partnered with
Andornot Information Management
Solutions to make the data in LADRS
Photo above: Pictured here is a poster
advertising the Penn Central Auction of
1972. By purchasing 248 lots at this
auction, the Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania’s founders acquired a
strong foundation upon which the library
and archives could grow. (RR2008.5.2,
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, PHMC)

available to on line researchers who
can now browse the database from
the comfort of their own home.
The Museum uploads new data to
the host site twice per year, and the
Friends of the Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania pays the annual hosting
fees of $5,000 while also funding and
managing the operations of the local
computer network.
As FRM technology manager Jim
Alexander noted, “We had to look
very hard to fi nd a computer system
that could meet both internal and user
needs, have the ability to grow, meet
professional archives management
standards and be affordable.
Inmagic’s programs turned out to
be an ideal choice but, what made
it really feasible was, the ability of
the Andornot team to listen to the
practical needs of railroad researchers
to make this a responsive, properly
tuned tool.” 8
The Friends of the Railroad
Museum of Pennsylvania has
contributed tens of thousands of
volunteer hours toward the LADRS
endeavor since 1997. As of March 1,
2011, the LADRS catalogue contained
154,825 archival catalogue records
and 6,973 library catalogue records,
with these numbers increasing every
week. LADRS currently contains
25,052 thumbnail images accessible
to the public.
During the process of cataloguing
collections into LADRS, staff and
volunteers are fi nding duplication
of documents, ephemera and books.
Not having had full inventories in the
past, it was impossible for any one
individual to know the collection well
enough to prevent duplicate items
from fi ltering in. Staff members
Photo above: This letter, written by
Andrew Carnegie in 1865, is one of the
many signifi cant documents preserved in the
Museum’s archives. While Carnegie is best
known as a successful steel tycoon, he wrote
this letter while he was employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. (RR98.36, MG199,
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, PHMC)
now check every potential donation
against LADRS in an effort to
avoid unnecessary duplicate copies
from slipping into our holdings.
Duplicates that are found are being
removed from the collection, offered
to other museums and, if no suitable
home can be found, sold through a
special deaccession auction. This
sale raises funds to help preserve
existing collections or purchase new
collections. Due to the premium on
space at the Museum, this is both a
necessary and benefi cial process.
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Grant
Despite the success in bringing the
Museum’s archival collections to the
public, the capacity of LADRS and our
library and archives had been limited
by the shortcomings of the present
April 2011
7

infrastructure. For example, the
Museum’s corps of dedicated library
and archives volunteers had not been
able to expand due to a shortage of
workstations. Furthermore, many of
the Museum’s archival collections
are located in the archives annex,
where there were no workstations.
Consequently, cataloguing these
collections required shuffl ing
collections around the building, or
cataloguing on paper sheets that
volunteers subsequently entered into
LADRS. Neither was ideal, for both
methods are labor intensive and can
lead to errors.
With this in mind, the Museum
sought funding from the Norfolk
Southern Foundation to implement
the Library & Archives Enhancement
Project. The Museum was pleased
to announce recently that Norfolk
Southern Foundation has funded
this request, committing $60,000
to implement infrastructure
enhancements that will help make
a substantially larger amount of
archival material available for public
access.
Infrastructure improvements
include a larger capacity storage
server to accommodate the increasing
data loads generated by a growing
database. The Museum expanded
the current network’s capabilities by
installing a new fi ber optic network
backbone throughout the building,
and installing four new network
connections in the archives annex. The
Museum has also acquired software
to maximize the effi ciency of the
network and workstations, including
enhanced antivirus programs, a new
system for backing-up and protecting
data and other related software
required for daily operations.
Photo above: The Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania collection includes dozens of
professional and historic fi lms. This image
is from amateur 16mm footage shot of New
York’s Penn Station in 1959. (RR77.56,
MG199, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania,
PHMC)
8 April 2011
The Museum will also increase
the accessibility of its collections by
purchasing a variety of additional
tools. The acquisition of a microfi lm
reader will enable researchers, both on
site and off site via mail and email, to
make use of the Museum’s collection
of microfi che and approximately
150 rolls of microfi lmed documents.
This will also enable the Museum to
pursue additional microfi lm records
that can be substituted in place
of fragile original documents and
periodicals. The Museum acquired a
professional quality scanner, capable
of scanning negatives and slides,
to increase the number of in-house
scanning workstations from two
to three. Finally, the Museum will
purchase a book copier and scanner
that will scan and copy historic books
and other delicate bound materials
safely and effi ciently.
Services Offered
As has been stated earlier, the
Museum strives to make its worldclass
collection as accessible as
possible to any and all interested
individuals. LADRS is one of the
best tools available to individuals
interested in the Museum’s library
and archival collection. In the past
year, researchers have used LADRS
on more than 8,000 occasions.
By using the LADRS database,
researchers can review tens of
thousands of records, and access
the information most relevant to
them. For example, a researcher
interested in the Willamsport &
North Branch Railroad can use
LADRS to immediately determine
that the Museum collection includes
at least 172 different archival items
pertaining to that entity. LADRS
will provide information to the
researcher about each of these 172
items, while showing staff members
where each item is physically
located. For a modest fee, staff can
then produce high quality scans or
prints of photographs, negatives,
slides, drawings, maps, manuscripts
or documents of particular interest.
The Museum is also able to provide
digital copies of historic motion
pictures from the collection that
were originally shot in 8mm, super 8,
16mm or 35mm formats.
Photo orders play a large role in the
activities of the archives. As staff and
volunteers scan items for a specifi c
photo order or during the course of
regular cataloguing, they are placed
on a storage server. By drawing from

images housed on this server, staff
can complete image reproductions in
a matter of minutes from the receipt
of an order. Researchers are also able
to see positives of the Museum’s
negatives without the need to generate
prints.
Orders for images that are not
already on the image server can take
up to several weeks, depending on
how many images need to be scanned
and the availability of staff and
equipment. The Museum nevertheless
makes every effort to provide as
prompt a service as is possible. Staff
members utilize a specialized slide
scanner that is equipped with an
automatic feed to speed the scanning
of 35mm transparencies, and three
scanners that are capable of doing
high resolution work with negatives.
The Museum also partners with an
outside company that is able to scan
very large items including oversized
photographs, maps and blueprints.
The Museum’s reproduction standards
are compatible with the needs of most
publishers, and scans of Museum
images and drawings have been
featured in numerous publications
and books.
Individuals who are able to
travel can also utilize the collection
by scheduling an appointment to
visit the Museum’s research room.
Patrons are required to schedule their
appointments in advance, and they
should consult the on line LADRS
databases so that they can provide
advance details of relevant material.
This allows staff the time needed to
pull material from the shelves prior to
the visit.
This on-site research program
is quite popular. In the 2009/2010
fi scal year, the Railroad Museum
of Pennsylvania accommodated 54
researchers who each spent at least
one day using the library and archives.
The Museum has already exceeded
that number in the current fi scal year,
which ends on June 30.
Staff and volunteers can perform
research for patrons who cannot travel
to the Museum. There is typically
no fee for simple inquires, but the
Museum does charge nominal fees
for inquires that require more detailed
research. In the most previous fi scal
year, the Museum answered 443
public research inquires.
Despite the Museum’s success,
the efforts to enhance accessibility
are very much a work in progress.
Current projects for volunteers in
the archives include answering
research queries, continued scanning
of the General Negative Collection,
fi nalizing the data entry on the
John Harris Collection, data entry
for the Jim Shuman and Richard
Gladulich collections, scanning of
the remaining Baldwin Locomotive
Works negatives, cataloguing library
books and preparing collections in the
annex for data entry by rehousing and
identifying materials. Help is needed
to make progress on a number of
these projects. However, prospective
volunteers will have to wait for the
arrival of the computers—expected
by early summer—purchased with
funds from the NS Foundation.
While getting to this point has
been a long, arduous process, the
Museum believes it has an ethical
responsibility to make its
collections accessible, and
it has been very satisfying
to see the dream of
collections accessibility
slowly become a reality.
As Museum director
Charles Fox observed,
“LADRS represents a
classic example of the success that
has been achieved at the Museum
on so many fronts, based on this
wonderful collaboration of Friends
and Pennsylvania Historical &
Museum Commission people
and resources. In particular, the
commitment and depth of expertise
of the Friends over so many years has
made a real difference. We now have
a well-functioning system that meets
many needs in a manner that meets
high standards.” 9
If you would like to learn more about
our holdings or LADRS, please contact
the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
or visit the Museum’s web site at http://
www.rrmuseumpa.org.
The authors thank Charles Fox,
James Alexander Jr and Kurt Bell for
their assistance with this article.
Nicholas Zmijewski is archives
technician and Bradley K. Smith is
chief curator at the Railroad Museum
of Pennsylvania.
NOTES
1 For an overview of the Museum’s early
history, see Kurt Bell, “A Railroad Museum
Retrospective, Part I,” Milepost 18:4
(November, 2000): 11-21.
2 Phil Ritter, interview by Brad Smith,
Strasburg, PA, March 8, 2011.
3 Kurt R. Bell, ed., George Michener Hart:
An Oral History (Strasburg: FRM/PHMC,
February 1999), p. 28.
4 Ritter. The two assistants were PHMC
representatives Donald Kent and Bill
Richards.
5 Additional details of the Penn Central
purchase can be found in the vital information
fi le for that collection: RR72.1, MG199,
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
6 Bell.
7 One can view the American Association of
Museum’s document, A Higher Standard¸on
the Association’s website at this link:
http://www.aam-us.org/museumresources/
accred/upload/Standards.pdf.
8 James Alexander Jr, interview by Bradley K.
Smith, Strasburg, PA, March 9, 2011.
9 Charles Fox, interview by Bradley K. Smith,
Strasburg, PA, March 14, 2011.
Photo at Left: The Railroad Museum of
Pennsylvania cares for nearly a half million
historic images such as this historic
builder’s photo from the New Jersey
Locomotive & Machine Company.
(RR76.20, MG 199, Railroad Museum
of Pennsylvania, PHMC)
April 2011
9