Re: Coloured Steam Locos (was: What's the difference between a steam and diesel loco?

[Bob Gioia <alco@acay.com.au>]

Bill,
     It seems that you have some misunderstanding about the role of Museums in
society. I encourage you to read up about this.You don't creat history or make it up
as you go along.
Cheers
Bob

Bill Bolton wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:22:45 +1100, Bob Gioia <alco@acay.com.au>
> wrote:
> >It matters if they run for a museum and are suppose to be "restored to their
> >former glory". I'm begining to think we should be saying "rebuilt to the latest
> >standards".
>
> Since that tended to be an ongoing feature of railway locomotives
> (whatever their motive power) and other rolling stock over its working
> lives... if its kept working, its quite reasonable to expect that it
> will continue to be upgraded to meet current operational standards.
>
> If you like them "restored to their former glory", the question then
> arises of *which* former glory, as they probably had several episodes
> of it after successive major maintenance/rebuilds.
>
> An operational locomotive is still accumulating operational history.
> Since most remaining operational mainline steam locomotives now spend
> their casual operational time doing things which are often not very
> typical of what they did in their full time operational days,  I can't
> see why there is any particular historical imperative preventing being
> painted in some other scheme that those it has carried in the past.
> The new scheme then becomes just another part of the locomotives
> ongoing operational history.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
> Bill Bolton
> Sydney, Australia