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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 Sounds like time for an appeal to the various clubs at the high school for labor, and local merchants for materials. If you can allow a little license, say lettering it for the school, and perhaps painting it in the school colors, then support may be even more forthcoming. It can still look very prototypical, especially since there appears to be a Pennsy cat-whisker F on the high school home page and the sports teams are called the Railroaders. Give it reporting marks of "BHS" with the year the school was built (or maybe the current grad class - annual maintenance, tho) Letter it with a nice script reminiscent of the glory days of RR's, with "Home of the Railroaders" or something like that. If it is clearly visible to the public, consider adding a sign holder (a la safety signs) that can be used to advertise school events. Get one of the clubs, or perhaps the athletic boosters, to adopt it. It can happen, and you won't have to do all the work! [/quote] This sounds like a potential local icon. And as an athletic booster club member who just got through with an $800k baseball/football stadium for my daughter's school (we donated some of the engineering), the team angle is a likely genuine winner, particularly if Brunswick is a tightly knit community, as I get the impression it is, and the caboose is parked at the stadium as you say. GO TO THE BOOSTER CLUB!! I suspect you'll be amazed at how many people will likely come out of the woodwork to create one of the biggest high school mascots around. You've got a centerpiece there! And don't worry about a small bunch of railfans who may or may not support the school. If you paint it in school colors with the school logo, etc., as suggested, and don't put PRR on it anywhere, they'll get the message. If they don't and they really want to be that trite and childish, what do you care??Are you doing it for them or for the kids?? And you've saved the caboose as well. Remember, this car is the high school's property--it's not the railroad's or the railfans', and the HS is not a railroad museum--they gave it to the school in the first place, so it obviously wasn't of greatest importance to keep it safe from the drunks on their premises! I seriously doubt that this is the last remaining caboose of its type in captivity. Their mascot is the railroaders--capitalize on that. And if you want, cut a deal to put a little museum inside about its B&O heritage and the B&O in town--matter of fact, that's where you get any dissenting B&O fans to put up or shut up--put them in charge of restoring the inside and stocking the museum. And by all means, put a plaque on the outside. tree68 has given you some absolutely great ideas. So have macguy, Ed and MC. This is a tremendous opportunity for you to give back to the community and give the kids something to rally around (and they can do that too--have their pep rallies at the caboose, which of course will quickly gain magical powers to hex the opposing team!) Go out there and be a hero[bow][bow] What an opportunity!
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