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I got to ask everyone for a favor. Stanley tools is running a contest called "Build your America " . My historical society is one of the entries in it, and we need all the votes we can get. If you can go stanley tools Facebook page and vote for us ( the anthracite railroads historical society ) on page 13 of the contest I would be very grateful. This is for a $10,000 prize that will be used in the up keep and repair of our locomotives.
Thanks a bunch. Steve O. ( E-paw)
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I stopped having anything to do with Stanley when they moved their corporate headquarters out of America to avoid paying taxes.
"Building America" is not something can claim legitimately any longer, unless Japanese tool makes get to make the same claim.
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I voted for your organization. I don't know anything about Stanley tools avoiding taxes. But I can still have them give 10,000 dollars to an organization to which there is no prophet to them. Besides some one will get the $$ might as well be a railroad historical group.
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I don't know anything about where stanley ' headquarters is either, never even thought about looking it up. If they want to give away 10 grand to a non profit charity here in the US, I'm not about to turn down that kind of donation.
We work off of a budget of basically nothing. It's whatever we can get from donations and fundraising, and railfan give us flack when equipment breaks down or is not finished yet. They have no idea what it takes to get this stuff done in terms of manpower and money. For instance our B unit needs a new set of wheels and new transition equipment. That $10,000 would get us one or the other, but not both. This is something that we could really use.
So again, thanks a bunch for your help and wish us luck.
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew
