Re: (erielack) Historic artifacts (was: Sale of Erie Lackawanna Station Sign)

[Robert Frost <bobfrost_12303_@_yahoo.com>]

This subject reminded me of a moral dilemma I faced the first nice spring day in 1950 in Meadville. I took advantage of the warm day to climb through the locomotives in the "bone yard" adjacent to the engine terminal and across the tracks from the passenger station.  In the tender of one of the locomotives I found an Erie lantern, which I recognized as old by the round shape of its globe and the ERIE etched into the glass.  My first thought was that I should take it since it was headed for scrap anyway.  But then better judgment told me that I'd be stealing railroad property.  I left the tracks that day with a record of the white-lined locomotives but not with the lantern.  Many times since I've thought, I really should have taken the lantern.

Bob Frost  ELHS 980    

- --- On Thu, 7/7/11, Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) <paul.tupaczewski_@_alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> > Do we as "railfans" want to 
> > encourage vandalism to say nothing of encouraging
> theft?
> 
> I'm not a fan of theft, but if stuff is going into the
> garbage, I'm all for taking it for the sake of preservation.


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