Steamtown is a National Park - you'd think there would be unlimited funding to run an outfit like this. The first time I visited, locomotives were undergoing restoration on site. That kind of work is no longer performed at Steamtown. The Museum is nice, but a lot of the outdoor exhibits are poorly cared for. We can spend a trillion dollars blowing up Iraq and Afghanistan, but we can't even find one billion in stimulus money to fix up the engines in Scranton. I was sure Joe Biden would take care of this when he became V.P.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Stimulate This
With all of the stimulus money being poured out of Washington these days, you'd think there would be funding to staff every Museum in the country. Here is a shot I took at Steamtown a couple of years age. I love suburban tank engines. I wish this one was undergoing a full restoration before entering excursion service. Alas, Not!
Steamtown is a National Park - you'd think there would be unlimited funding to run an outfit like this. The first time I visited, locomotives were undergoing restoration on site. That kind of work is no longer performed at Steamtown. The Museum is nice, but a lot of the outdoor exhibits are poorly cared for. We can spend a trillion dollars blowing up Iraq and Afghanistan, but we can't even find one billion in stimulus money to fix up the engines in Scranton. I was sure Joe Biden would take care of this when he became V.P.
Steamtown is a National Park - you'd think there would be unlimited funding to run an outfit like this. The first time I visited, locomotives were undergoing restoration on site. That kind of work is no longer performed at Steamtown. The Museum is nice, but a lot of the outdoor exhibits are poorly cared for. We can spend a trillion dollars blowing up Iraq and Afghanistan, but we can't even find one billion in stimulus money to fix up the engines in Scranton. I was sure Joe Biden would take care of this when he became V.P.
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