Please help save a museum!

[Green_Elite_Cab]

In short, due to constant battles between the museum and the local government (the mayor of which has been seeking to press the museum out of town for a while now), the museum trust has been evicted from the site. They are given an unrealistically short time to do something about the railroad, and an equally unrealistic date (in a matter of a few weeks) to remove all the trains if the terms can't be reached.

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The museum is housed in an old PRR station on what was once Pennsy's "Back road" to New York City. Inside are several rail and local related artifacts. In addtion, the museum owns several historic and rare pieces of equipment, such as a PRR N5C and NX23 cabin car, a pair of GE switchers and some rolling stock from the Roebling Steel plant, a 1928 tidewater tank car, a Rock Island PS-1 Boxcar, a former LV hopper and a CNJ wood caboose (which my troop and i rebuilt the walls to).

The museum also maintains the local rails to trails paths.

The equipment is in rough shape, but much progress has been made in terms of laying track and renovating the station itself.

If you want to help, PM me and i'll give you the details. Hopefully, we can get together enough opposition that we may be able to overturn the tide. Needless to say, I've put in quite a few hours in this place, and thats nothing compared to what the regular staff do on a weekly basis. The last thing i want to see is all this work go into oblivion.

Thanks for your support,
Chris