He has passed on to his final reward, and all his stuff is now available at the railroad museum in Temple, Texas. Sic trainset gloria! A.T.
--- In STMFC@..., "Tom Madden" <tgmadden@...> wrote:
Richard Hendrickson wrote:
There was a Santa Fe foamer (whom I won't name, since he is now dead, RIP, though numerous members of this list will know who I'm talking about) who was notorious for having ripped off the railroad files without permission everywhere he went. He would pontificate about all the choice drawings, data, and photos he
had
but it was almost impossible to get him to share them with anyone else. Then when others turned up with copies of the material
from
other sources he would proclaim, " but I have the ORIGINAL," as though copies, even very good copies, were unspeakably tacky.
All very true, but if you had something he wanted he became your best buddy. In the last two years of his life he extracted a lot of Pullman information from me, but in return he loaned me all of his Pullman slides and negatives (several hundred) to scan, and gave me copies of all the Pullman tourist, military and hospital car documents he had accumulated. He was obviously comfortable with
this
quid pro quo attitude, but I often wonder how much more information and insight we'd now have if he'd made his material more widely avaiable so we and he could have discussed it at length.
