[GreenKeys] What is to become of NADCOMM?

[Don Robert House]

I am toying with approaching the Museum of Science and Industry. 
Providing they would have me keep the equipment working it would be 
the best option.  The museum is very large and the staff is very 
busy.  The antique cars there have almost decayed from lack of any 
preservation.  There is at least a half inch of dust on them.  When I 
was assistant director of the Packard Club we volunteered to clean 
the car collection but they declined.  So you can see why I am a 
little un-impressed.

Don




>While the California State RR Museum at Sacto might be a reasonable
>environment for the display of such equipment, I think that Chicago's Museum
>of Science and Industry might be the more appropriate in terms of maintenance
>of the equipment and for actual, working displays.
>
>William J. Neill
>Conroe, Texas
>
>Gary Chatters wrote:
>
>>  >>
>>  >>You are moving to the midwest? Where? What will become of all the
>>  >>NADCOMM stuff?
>>  >>
>>  >>73 de W3NU
>>  >
>>  >Charles, et all
>>  >
>>  >McHenry County Illinois is where we are looking for property.
>>  >
>>
>>  I've long had a bit of an interest in railroading.  It's got electricity
>>  and machinery, just like Teletypes. :-)
>>  On a few occasions I have visited a few of the railroad museums in the
>>  area and taken a ride if they actually have operating equipment.  Some
>>  of the railroads still have some telephone/telegraph lines running along
>>  the right of way.  Usually in disarray and never used.
>>
>>  Of course, this gets me thinking about how telegraphs and Teletypes
>>  were used in railroading.  And for the few museums that still have
>>  trackage with telegraph lines, why would they not include such utilities
>>  for a complete display?
>>
>>  I live in Maryland now, but lived in Michigan and Wisconsin for quite
>>  a few years before coming out here.  When you said McHenry county, it
>>  sounded familiar, so I looked it up on the map.  I-90 catches it in
>>  the south-west corner and I have traveled that route many times going
>>  from Madison to Chicago or Michigan.
>>
>>  McHeny County is the location of the Illinois Railway Musesum,
>>  http://www.irm.org  "America's Largest Railway Museum".
>>
>>  Well, it is just an idea, but if you are living out there you can
>>  give us a report on what they might have in their displays, or if
>>  it's nothing maybe you can convince them that communications are important
>>  to railroading.
>>
>>  I don't recall what we'd said on this topic on Greenkeys, but I would be
>>  interested in hearing if anyone has seen telegraph or Teletype or
>>  telephone displays integrated into any working railroad museums or
>  > tourist railroads.
>  >
>  > 73,
>  > Gary
>  >
>
>
>
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Don Robert House, N.S.E.
Curator, NADCOMM
North American Data Communications Museum
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