On 5/25/2012 8:05 AM, James Thompson wrote:
> > From the number of messages regarding steam trains, I gather that there are
a lot more of them scattered all over the country than I had ever imagined. In
some cases steam engines are left out in the weather to eventually rot because
they are used as decorator items, kinda like painted saws. We have a big 8
wheeler sitting at the entrance to Fairmount Park here in Riverside. It is
fenced off to keep kids away. It has been parked on a short section of track
since before I came here in the middle 50's. Every so often it will get really
ugly and the city will throw on a coat of black paint. It has never been
maintained. The powers that be think it is just a wonderful decorator thing
sitting there looking ugly.
>   <snip>
We have an old steam engine (Baldwin, I think) sitting as a statue here 
in Temple, TX.  In fact, a few years ago the city sold off the museum 
building where it sat out front and had to move it.  The relocated it 
about a mile away over city streets.  It was a grand production.

-- 
Bob Hutchins
Temple, TX, USA
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