Location for Model Railroad Museum - In Pennsylvania???

[Randall_Roberts]

 Texas Zephyr;

When you get your museum set up and have a web site for it, please let me know and I'll add a link for it to my directory of model train museums:

http://modeltrains.about.com/od/modelrailroadmuseums/Model_Railroad_Museums.htm

If anyone has links to museums I haven't listed, please email me with them.

• Chattanooga, TN - I recall there is a large club layout there, and somewhere in Tennessee (anyone know?) the Model Railroad Hall of Fame with models and layout sections from the "the Great Ones".  Besides... who can resist the mystique of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?

Are you thinking of the one in the Chattanooga Choo Choo mall?  The mall is in a Holiday Inn that used to be the Chattanooga Terminal Station. That museum is, at the moment, 3rd on my list (alphabetically).

[Texas Zepher]

Since this came up again....   Other places that have come up for the museum are Pipestone MN, Jasper MN, Clayton KS, Castana IA (Yes just north from where the tornado tore up the boy scout camp), Thayer MO (a town big on the old FRISCO and crew change location for the BNSF), and Burlington IA (While it was almost the perfect location and perfect building, it needed tooooooo much initial work to get the project underway).   I have three properties currently under "negotiations" in IA, western KS, and eastern KS.  

Oh yeah, and the only location currently underconsideration back east is in NY, it is listed for a ludicrous price compared to the others, but it has been on the market for over two years and the price is slowly coming down.  However, an idle building usually deteriorates much quicker than the price until it is TOOO late.  A case in point is/was the Burlington Apollo High School mentioned above.  It sold for $145K two years ago and the new owners invested over $30K.  It just sold again two months ago for about $90K and needs $250K worth of work just to get started renovating. 

[Rotorranch]

This is an example of another thread that ended in 2007. Yet it reappears on page 2 of the current forum as a result of rrinker's post of yesterday @ 9:19PM. Where is his post of yesterday that apparently brought it back to life? ( Of course I probably just destroyed the record of his post of yesterday with this reply.)

Did we experience an unexpected intersection with some dark energy yesterday or, was it just a bug in the current maintenance program at MR. I am old enough to be technology challenged but, what am I missing here?

Peter Smith, Memphis

If someone edits one of their previous posts in a thread, it automatically "bumps" the thread without adding a new post.

For example, if a year from now I add to this post I am typing now by adding the words "hi guys!" to the end of it, it will bump this thread back to the head of the line, but this post will still have its original date on it. This will happen even if this post I am typing now is not the last post a year from now.

Make sense?

Nope...doesn't happen here. I just tried it on a post of mine on page 3. Guess what? It's still on page 3!

It was a spammer bumping old posts. The spammer was deleted, as were his (her) posts. That's how the old threads got to the front.

At least that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

Rotor

[Extiger]

Although you specifically asked about Pen. you may want to consider Galesburg, IL.  They are working on having a National RR. Museam there, and yours might be a logical tie in.  They also hold Railroad Days there every year.