Bill,
I'll second that. Any time I go to Galesburg it's "RR Days" for me. I'm
looking forward to go there at the end of this month.
Ken Thompson
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From: "billselleck" <buklyjuice@arq.net>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:13 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] RR Days is not dead at all!
> I am greatly disturbed about all this talk of RR Days being dead and
> the related negativity thus generated. I would not want any of the
> readers of this list to think that Galesburg's RR Days is no longer
> worth coming to. Surely the fact that there is no longer any 1/1th
> scale rolling stock to climb on or no longer any yard tours being given
> diminish what still exists in RR Days.
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> It is true that there was a quiet at the depot this year. Without the
> exhibits and displays that we have all grown used to seeing, there was
> a diffent mood. But it is unfair to say that the event is "Dead".
>
> Did none of you spend any time at the museum tent? Maybe once inside
> you talked a bit more with William Franckey or Ron Hatch on things CBQ?
> Did none of you spend time talking with any musuem staff (many Q
> employees among them)? I'll bet you heard some rather ambitious plans
> for next year from them right? Did you take a bit more time looking
> over the locomotive control stand in the tent? Did you more closely
> focus on the 3006, waycar, and RPO still on the former depot grounds?
> Did you not take take a second look at the "Meath" museum car? Suely
> you spent more time railfaning about town? More time spent near Cameron
> or in Peck Park? More time on Thirwell bridge watching things train in
> the yard below? Did you meet some new railfans and enthusiasts? I'll
> bet then you at least spent a bit more time at the train show. Did you
> not see more dealers? Did you then spend more time going over those
> 1000s of depot photographs? Did you talk with Dave Lotz, people from
> RITS, or the CNWHS? Ok, well then you had more time to sample the food
> around town. Did you see the train related diplays in some of the
> downtown windows?
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> NO?!?
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> I did these things and had lots to see and do.
>
> Maybe you misssed something?
>
> Dead? I did not have time to notice.
>
> Bill Selleck
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