First engine you looked at was former Canadian National #47. It was the very first excursions locomotive used by stwamtown when they were originally located in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Unfortunately her career was rather short, due to lost maintenance records that has been destroyed in an office fire. So steamtown was forced to retire her. She wasn't in service for even a month
My late father worked for Southern Pacific Railroad for 28 years before retiring. His passion was trains and I'm certain he is enjoying this video from heaven. Thank you.
As a kid I once climbed into the engineer's cab of an old steam locomotive. Opened the firebox and a hyperactive squirrel ran out, dust and fluff everywhere!
Wouldn't it be great to own your own private track with a small train and a few carriages on your own property? You could run your tiny home around on the track and change position depending on the time of year.
There is a fully operational rotary snow plow running on the Heber valley historic railroad line in Heber city Utah. To see it in operation is truly a awesome experience. The amount of snow it can throw is mind boggling. They also have a train ride that is very cool on the track from the 1800’s
Awesome video guys - I used to visit Steamtown a lot as a kid and always loved watching trains from that overhead walkway they have on site. In the opening shot of the video that's a Canadian National 4-6-4T, and used to run when Steamtown's original location was in Bellows Falls Vermont. The loco with the big 6 ft driving wheel is a Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 type, known as the Jubilee.
@@yeoldeseawitchI would love to go in there with a gas torch and start cutting some scrap steam locos. Maybe I would save the snow blower for a preservation group but certainly I will cut the steam locos.
Its fascinating to see the old trains and the snow blower which funny enough only just saw a video of one that had been restored and watched on UA-cam in action a few days ago. We have lots of old trains sitting and waiting to be restored here in Western Australia too. Hotham Valley Railway is run by volunteers and at times they bring out a train journey for people to experience for the day. Sad to see them rotting away and maybe to far gone to restore now.
A lot of money, time and many volunteers will bring them back to life again. Thank god for all those that love them enough to restore them for generations to actually see them and some running again. ❤
I love steam engines and the good old days of steam, wished I could go back to that era...that huge black restored loco looked like "Big Boy"...he was huge...Im from Australia and my most favorite steam engine is the good old "3801" she is beautiful...I also love the "Flying Scotsman"...thank you for this video...i loved it....take care on your adventures, Chris :)
It's a big boy. Was originally planned to be restored to operation but the tracks weren't designed for the big boys and parts were used for 4014s restoration
@@Marcel_Audubon good one Marcel but to keep calling it a “SNOW BLOWER” when you could do 2 seconds of research and call it what it is.. you know because he’s making a video to inform people with? Smartass
I was on a train like that when i was 4 yrs old. It was 1981, and I can still remember begging my mom for a toy train set from a gift shop when the locomotives brakes suddenly caught fire.
When I first watched this, I thought he was two blocks from my house in Strasburg Pa. Love these videos. Always informative and easy to understand. Would have killed me to think I missed an opportunity to meet him and possibly learn more about his story. Hope he keeps these videos coming!
I've been to the site a few times, its always cool to look around. My personal favorite locomotive that they have is an old Shays type sitting near the concrete grain bins towards the back of the site.
Such Powerhouses these old Iron Horses! Even their bones are Beautiful! Luv seeing this history of our country's bygone days. Great job filming and Huge Shout out to Jay for sharing! 🚃 💛 💚 💙 💜
Steam Town used to be in Vermont and then was moved to PA. There's a Steam locomotive in Gorham nh that used to belong to Steam Town. They were going to scrap it because they did not want to pay to have it moved. A man from the area bought it and put it on display in Gorham. He saved it because it has a special roof to go under a shoot at the place it was built to work.
I have old photos and books about steam town back when it was in Vermont. It almost looks like steam town did more and was more popular when it was in Vermont.
Thank you for this AWESOME video. I've been to Steamtown USA. One day just isn't enough time to cover everything there. I visited there pre covid and the cost to get in was a donation.
I really like the old unrestored locomotives there. The pantina just adds to the realism of just how long ago it was that the steam locomotives ran up and down the train line. After growing up in a small community that was once a thriving passenger train community back in the day of the steam locomotive. The experience just adds to my fascination with the time era..
Somewhere in the northeast "post 10" recorded a video of a old steam locomotive,cars and he also walked the old railroad bed. If I remember correctly it was a old logging railroad. Great video BTW from a guy who has been interested in trains for years now.
Thanks M I , this was a cool tour through American pioneer history . Trains are just frickin cool . I like how most of those were untouched for a long time . Often times people will ruin or break all the glass on stuff like that. I like how they are somewhat protected...
The big wheels were meant for speed, probably was used for passenger service, while the smaller wheels were meant for freight, it was a locomotive that didn't have to go as fast, it was destined for the pulling power instead.
3:10 I wonder if that's a service car. I think some passenger cars took steam from the engine to heat them. When they switched from steam to diesel, they added a car with a boiler to heat the passenger cars. Longer trains may have needed a service car too.
Thanks for posting this video..I have been to the museum many times over the years..urge anyone with especially children to take a trip and see and feel real history..also can go inside and see ones being refurbished in real-time..real craftsmen at work....also a ride on a live steam engine...now you can`t pass that up right?..how do you say no to your child..once again thank you..
I really think that steamtown is rather the opposite of heaven because they have a bunch of equipment that they ignore and haven't given any attempt of proper preservation and just allows them to rot. One engine in particular in their back lot is Nickel Plate Road #44, which is the oldest nkp locomotive in existence, as well as nkp 759, a former excursion running engine that they refuse to let go so it could potentially run again. And the sole reason she'll never run again is she's too big for steamtown to operate.
There’s plenty of those wooden passenger cars in restored condition on regular use at the Strasburg Railroad, in Strasburg PA. Near Lancaster. Next door from them is the RR Musuem of PA, which has a rail yard full of unrestored locomotives
You should see the driving wheels on a Stirling single at the National Railway Museum in York UK. I think from memory that they are 8 foot in diameter. It just cost over £3m to overhaul the Flying Scotsman. I dread to think how much it would cost to restore one of the locomotives from your "boneyard"
It looked like, early on in the video that there was a restored Union Pacific Big Boy there. If so, it was the largest steam locomotive ever created. The steam locomotives began to slowly disappear after WW2 with the rise of Diesel locomotives which gained momentum in the late ‘40’s and through the ‘50’s. I believe a few steam engines like the Big Boy were in use until the early ‘60’s as they were very, very expensive to maintain in comparison to the diesels which took over. Great video!
The machine is a Snow "Thrower". It worked in "2 stages". The front blades, that resemble a fan, would bite into the snow, breaking it up and feeding back into the "Thrower" part of the machine. At 7:02 we can see where the snow was fed into the paddles, round part and shoot. In reality if it was a "Blower" it would not work very well at all especially in hard packed snow. Most people call the small "2 stage" snow "throwers" we use to clear our driveways and sidewalks snow BLOWERS too but they are not, they are "throwers". They work just as this machine did. The Augers in the front bite into the snow breaking it up and feeding it to the "Thrower" part of the " 2 stage" machine. A snow "blower" might work somewhat with light powdery snow but would never blow the heavy stuff this thing did.
There’s a video I’ve seen on here it’s a caboose in the woods in Canada really cool they built it to last back in the day unlike today it’s built to be replaced 🤔🙈🤷♂️🥲
So for you pre-WWII is very old. There are still people alive today who were born before then. It would be nice to see you make a video of you jumping a freight. I am old now, but I did that when I was about 20. It wasn't difficult and a cheap way to go a long distance. Better to do it in the Spring or Fall for, I think, obvious reasons.
I was a home heath aide for some families. One man told me his stories of riding the rails. They had to in those days to find work. His first car had no rubber on the wheels, so they made them with newspaper. Fantastic. He got together with a chemist, I think, and made household cleaners in 55 gallon barrels. They had to bring them down 3 flights of stairs for pick-up. He ended up retiring and selling his formulas to Johnson&Johnson. Stuff like Mop&Glow.
Geez!!...... for me this would be the equivalent of going on a vacation to some far away places!!!! I could pack me some food and whatever else I need and stay for days....... damn.......
As soon as the video started my fist went up and walloped the air twice saying, badass, each time. That no47 train is amazing. It’s needs to be parked on my property (: We definitely have very similar taste, I thought the exact same thing as you when you walked in those cool industrial doors. How cool would it be to fit your entire house with actual industrial metal train fittings for everything. I live in Miami Az a small mining town in the copper corridor. I could do all mining here, with the stuff I find dumped over the roads here, rotting away. I will put a lift winch on my 4x4, when I get it. Peace and welcome here anytime. I could show you a few very cool places depending on your desires. I do a lot of Rockhounding. Just today I went hiking above Globe AZ my next door neighbor city and pulled out some tasty rocks. I think I found some turquoise today. I have to cut to see true color and stability and hardness.
Alright so the reason why a lot of this stuff hasn’t been restored is because Steamtown doesn’t have a lot of money to spend on restoring their stock (even though they are a national park!). There also isn’t a lot of space in their roundhouse and shops for all of this equipment. It’s really sad the Steamtown is probably the least paid national park in North America. Maybe even the world.
You had a great video today. Those old trains. Isn't there a way to get rid of those trains? YOU HAVE SHOWN US MANY OLD THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF. BUT THAT WOULD NOT BE GOOD FOR YOUR CHANNEL. I ALSO REALLY LOVED YOUR HAWAII ADVENTURES.
Love the videos my man. Do you take requests? There are a few places you need to see. One is an old factory set to be demolished this year... get ahold of me... thanks. again for showing off all these cool places
Lots of that stuff is pre 1900, so older than you think. Restoration is done a lot by volunteers. Time and money are always a factor in restoration. I do restoration in Kentucky and have spent thousands of dollars of my own money towards projects. So if you want to help. Donate to your local museum, time or money. Too many to work on and not enough people, so we would like to save them all but we can't.
Which one is your favorite? Mine is probably that snow blower.
Those snowblowers are common here in canada! was cool seeing one down south
I go with all of it.
Yes and it wasn't all rusted. It moved lol Thank you
Chris I think it's the snow blower
Yes. Very old too.
First engine you looked at was former Canadian National #47. It was the very first excursions locomotive used by stwamtown when they were originally located in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Unfortunately her career was rather short, due to lost maintenance records that has been destroyed in an office fire. So steamtown was forced to retire her. She wasn't in service for even a month
My late father worked for Southern Pacific Railroad for 28 years before retiring. His passion was trains and I'm certain he is enjoying this video from heaven. Thank you.
As a kid I once climbed into the engineer's cab of an old steam locomotive. Opened the firebox and a hyperactive squirrel ran out, dust and fluff everywhere!
Fun Fact! Doc Browns locomotive used in the movie sits back close to the Simpsons ride in Universal Studios Orlando👍
I love trains. It would be great to turn a car into a tiny home. Thanks Jay
Wouldn't it be great to own your own private track with a small train and a few carriages on your own property? You could run your tiny home around on the track and change position depending on the time of year.
A getaway in the woods a caboose 👌
@@Srekwahyeah it would be really cool. I imagine if you bought a super narrow long strip of land you could operate the trains at high speed
"I've been in some caboose but never an all wood caboose" might be the funniest unintentionally funny thing I've ever heard! 🤣🤣🤣
Why? Most cabooses are actually metal or metal and wood
You find the coolest stuff, thank you.
Winter is the best time to go there, despite the ice and cold. During the summer, that place is nothing but weeds and nests of yellow jackets.
There is a fully operational rotary snow plow running on the Heber valley historic railroad line in Heber city Utah. To see it in operation is truly a awesome experience. The amount of snow it can throw is mind boggling. They also have a train ride that is very cool on the track from the 1800’s
Called the Heber creeper I think
Awesome video guys - I used to visit Steamtown a lot as a kid and always loved watching trains from that overhead walkway they have on site. In the opening shot of the video that's a Canadian National 4-6-4T, and used to run when Steamtown's original location was in Bellows Falls Vermont. The loco with the big 6 ft driving wheel is a Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 type, known as the Jubilee.
Of all the locomotives in the collection, 47 and 2929 are the ones i want to see restored the most
@@yeoldeseawitchI would love to go in there with a gas torch and start cutting some scrap steam locos. Maybe I would save the snow blower for a preservation group but certainly I will cut the steam locos.
Thank you for Sharing... central Pa great for trains if you every go to Pa again!
So many cool places in Pa
Its fascinating to see the old trains and the snow blower which funny enough only just saw a video of one that had been restored and watched on UA-cam in action a few days ago. We have lots of old trains sitting and waiting to be restored here in Western Australia too. Hotham Valley Railway is run by volunteers and at times they bring out a train journey for people to experience for the day. Sad to see them rotting away and maybe to far gone to restore now.
Yes
A lot of money, time and many volunteers will bring them back to life again. Thank god for all those that love them enough to restore them for generations to actually see them and some running again. ❤
That train number 47 looks like the blue commet
It's amazing when you think of efficiency.
We started so wide of engineering tolerance and understanding of thermodynamics.
Keep learning ❤️
I love steam engines and the good old days of steam, wished I could go back to that era...that huge black restored loco looked like "Big Boy"...he was huge...Im from Australia and my most favorite steam engine is the good old "3801" she is beautiful...I also love the "Flying Scotsman"...thank you for this video...i loved it....take care on your adventures, Chris :)
Yes, it is a Big Boy. It has only been cosmeticaly restored. It will never run again.
It's a big boy. Was originally planned to be restored to operation but the tracks weren't designed for the big boys and parts were used for 4014s restoration
I was here last December!! The trolley car #76 is from Philadelphia red arrow lines that ran from 69th st terminal.
It's not called a Snow Blower, the proper name is a Rotary Snow Plow. They still use them on Donnor Pass out here in California.
The proper name for the large thing you appear to be riding is a high horse. Get off yours.
@@Marcel_Audubon good one Marcel but to keep calling it a “SNOW BLOWER” when you could do 2 seconds of research and call it what it is.. you know because he’s making a video to inform people with? Smartass
@@Marcel_Audubon he's just correcting him no need to get so offended
@@therailfanman2078 that conversation ended over a month ago ... are you so lonely you felt compelled to stick your nose into it today?!?
@@Marcel_Audubon i found the video today. And why so offended and if the videos over a month old then why did you reply? Looks like someone is lonely
I was on a train like that when i was 4 yrs old. It was 1981, and I can still remember begging my mom for a toy train set from a gift shop when the locomotives brakes suddenly caught fire.
I live in Gettysburg & we rode on a coal locomotive on a short trip from biglerville pa back to Gettysburg
When I first watched this, I thought he was two blocks from my house in Strasburg Pa. Love these videos. Always informative and easy to understand. Would have killed me to think I missed an opportunity to meet him and possibly learn more about his story. Hope he keeps these videos coming!
Thanks for the tour. Great job.
I've been to the site a few times, its always cool to look around. My personal favorite locomotive that they have is an old Shays type sitting near the concrete grain bins towards the back of the site.
Thankyou for showing us.
Awesome train Chris and jay 👌 great video
I see your buddy Jay has Cincinnati Reds gear. WHO DEY!
Heck yeah
Such Powerhouses these old Iron Horses! Even their bones are Beautiful! Luv seeing this history of our country's bygone days. Great job filming and Huge Shout out to Jay for sharing! 🚃 💛 💚 💙 💜
😁😁😁😁😁
Just finished watching Jay's mausoleum video. You two may a good team, good stuff brother Thanks. God Bless
Steam Town used to be in Vermont and then was moved to PA. There's a Steam locomotive in Gorham nh that used to belong to Steam Town. They were going to scrap it because they did not want to pay to have it moved. A man from the area bought it and put it on display in Gorham. He saved it because it has a special roof to go under a shoot at the place it was built to work.
I have old photos and books about steam town back when it was in Vermont. It almost looks like steam town did more and was more popular when it was in Vermont.
If you’ve got a clerestory roof/ceiling in a passenger coach...you’ve got something from several decades earlier than the 50’s....
I loved the beautiful yellow stained glass windows in it
Excellent video. That snow blower looks fun
I've always loved old steam locomotives. Very cool video Chris.
I'm vintage from 1956 Chris. but my Dad is antique from 1930. We'd love to talk to you and possibly be restored. Lol
I love whatever Chris likes to show me. This is also awesome.
Thanks Chris, Thanks Jay.
👍👍👍👍
Thank you for this AWESOME video. I've been to Steamtown USA. One day just isn't enough time to cover everything there. I visited there pre covid and the cost to get in was a donation.
I really like the old unrestored locomotives there. The pantina just adds to the realism of just how long ago it was that the steam locomotives ran up and down the train line. After growing up in a small community that was once a thriving passenger train community back in the day of the steam locomotive. The experience just adds to my fascination with the time era..
Somewhere in the northeast "post 10" recorded a video of a old steam locomotive,cars and he also walked the old railroad bed. If I remember correctly it was a old logging railroad. Great video BTW from a guy who has been interested in trains for years now.
Was it old? Got a link?
I think it's the video on Maine's abandoned "ghost trains"
Wow amazing you are so very blessed to travel to so many amazing places thank you always for your amazing videos😀
Well, I just found this channel. Wish I'd found it ages ago. Fascinating stuff; shortish videos but full of interest. Subscribed.
I’ve been there 7 times and this brought back so much nostalgia
Thanks M I , this was a cool tour through American pioneer history . Trains are just frickin cool . I like how most of those were untouched for a long time . Often times people will ruin or break all the glass on stuff like that. I like how they are somewhat protected...
Cool video but it's so sad to see these old trains rust down!
The big wheels were meant for speed, probably was used for passenger service, while the smaller wheels were meant for freight, it was a locomotive that didn't have to go as fast, it was destined for the pulling power instead.
Hey, go to the national train museum in PA
3:10 I wonder if that's a service car. I think some passenger cars took steam from the engine to heat them. When they switched from steam to diesel, they added a car with a boiler to heat the passenger cars. Longer trains may have needed a service car too.
Those are cool. I think I like the one with the sink in it 🙂
I just love your videos Chris!
Great footage!
Hey guys. The first loco you came upon is ex-CNR #47. She was used in Montreal commuter service right up to the end of steam.
Great video it probably take a million dollars for each one of them cars and engines to be made into running shape again
Thanks for posting this video..I have been to the museum many times over the years..urge anyone with especially children to take a trip and see and feel real history..also can go inside and see ones being refurbished in real-time..real craftsmen at work....also a ride on a live steam engine...now you can`t pass that up right?..how do you say no to your child..once again thank you..
I really think that steamtown is rather the opposite of heaven because they have a bunch of equipment that they ignore and haven't given any attempt of proper preservation and just allows them to rot. One engine in particular in their back lot is Nickel Plate Road #44, which is the oldest nkp locomotive in existence, as well as nkp 759, a former excursion running engine that they refuse to let go so it could potentially run again. And the sole reason she'll never run again is she's too big for steamtown to operate.
Love this place. Been there many times.
I love trains! I have never been on one but something fascinating about them. Cool video 😊
Enjoyed it as always thanks for showing can't wait to see the next video
Thank you
I love trains
ME TOO!!
Thank you! ❤️❤️
There’s plenty of those wooden passenger cars in restored condition on regular use at the Strasburg Railroad, in Strasburg PA. Near Lancaster. Next door from them is the RR Musuem of PA, which has a rail yard full of unrestored locomotives
You should see the driving wheels on a Stirling single at the National Railway Museum in York UK. I think from memory that they are 8 foot in diameter. It just cost over £3m to overhaul the Flying Scotsman. I dread to think how much it would cost to restore one of the locomotives from your "boneyard"
This is something different compared to your old video a change of a different type of history. The snow blower is pretty cool. 🚂
It looked like, early on in the video that there was a restored Union Pacific Big Boy there. If so, it was the largest steam locomotive ever created.
The steam locomotives began to slowly disappear after WW2 with the rise of Diesel locomotives which gained momentum in the late ‘40’s and through the ‘50’s.
I believe a few steam engines like the Big Boy were in use until the early ‘60’s as they were very, very expensive to maintain in comparison to the diesels which took over.
Great video!
Cool reveal some old history of our country's transportation from back in the day.
I really enjoy seeing what you find through your travels Chris. Keep up the great work!
Love, Love me some trains! New or old… doesn’t matter!!! Thank You Chris!
That was awesome thanks so much. I love trains. That was amazing to see.
It's so cool to see the old trains
The machine is a Snow "Thrower". It worked in "2 stages". The front blades, that resemble a fan, would bite into the snow, breaking it up and feeding back into the "Thrower" part of the machine. At 7:02 we can see where the snow was fed into the paddles, round part and shoot. In reality if it was a "Blower" it would not work very well at all especially in hard packed snow. Most people call the small "2 stage" snow "throwers" we use to clear our driveways and sidewalks snow BLOWERS too but they are not, they are "throwers". They work just as this machine did. The Augers in the front bite into the snow breaking it up and feeding it to the "Thrower" part of the " 2 stage" machine. A snow "blower" might work somewhat with light powdery snow but would never blow the heavy stuff this thing did.
So cool! I love old locomotives ❤️... You find so many interesting things. Thanks 👍
Amazing work
Well done
ugh..as a train enthusiast it sad to see the rusty ones..i'm glad they are restoring them, been to steamtown once, it's great!
Rust is awesome. One the reasons I’m into trains. Lust for rust !
I like abandoned trains and the way they look. It's better than being scrapped
There’s a video I’ve seen on here it’s a caboose in the woods in Canada really cool they built it to last back in the day unlike today it’s built to be replaced 🤔🙈🤷♂️🥲
So for you pre-WWII is very old. There are still people alive today who were born before then. It would be nice to see you make a video of you jumping a freight. I am old now, but I did that when I was about 20. It wasn't difficult and a cheap way to go a long distance. Better to do it in the Spring or Fall for, I think, obvious reasons.
I was a home heath aide for some families. One man told me his stories of riding the rails. They had to in those days to find work. His first car had no rubber on the wheels, so they made them with newspaper. Fantastic. He got together with a chemist, I think, and made household cleaners in 55 gallon barrels. They had to bring them down 3 flights of stairs for pick-up. He ended up retiring and selling his formulas to Johnson&Johnson. Stuff like Mop&Glow.
Interesting. A lot of history there.
Amazing stuff. Incredible engineering.
You should do follow up on some of these When they get them restored
Amazing look at the past 🤘🍻
Really amazing piece of history 🌟Would be great to have some awesome pieces decorating my apartment 😍🌟
Definitely!
I Remember When Cabooses Was On Rear Of All Trains - 1970's - I Used To Wave At Them , They Would At Times Wave Back
No. 47 was beautiful
Geez!!...... for me this would be the equivalent of going on a vacation to some far away places!!!! I could pack me some food and whatever else I need and stay for days....... damn.......
Very cool. Loved it. Liked your hat too. 👍
Amazing! I adore trains and train equipment🚂
The train museum in Hong Kong have very similar trains to be displaced for public. Some date back to 1910s.
Hey! You were in my town!
As soon as the video started my fist went up and walloped the air twice saying, badass, each time. That no47 train is amazing. It’s needs to be parked on my property (: We definitely have very similar taste, I thought the exact same thing as you when you walked in those cool industrial doors. How cool would it be to fit your entire house with actual industrial metal train fittings for everything. I live in Miami Az a small mining town in the copper corridor. I could do all mining here, with the stuff I find dumped over the roads here, rotting away. I will put a lift winch on my 4x4, when I get it. Peace and welcome here anytime. I could show you a few very cool places depending on your desires. I do a lot of Rockhounding. Just today I went hiking above Globe AZ my next door neighbor city and pulled out some tasty rocks. I think I found some turquoise today. I have to cut to see true color and stability and hardness.
This is one of your top videos!
Love trains 🚆 😊
Those old trains aren't the easiest things to restore, I suppose. First of all, they are going to need a rather large workshop.
i cant believe a rail museum has not snatched these up
Steamtown is basically a railroad museum
That first car, older than the 1950's.
Yes I believe 1925-1930 time period.
Neat to see, but sad to see it’s condition. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Great video
I manage and inspect rail cars. Nice video y’all
Alright so the reason why a lot of this stuff hasn’t been restored is because Steamtown doesn’t have a lot of money to spend on restoring their stock (even though they are a national park!). There also isn’t a lot of space in their roundhouse and shops for all of this equipment. It’s really sad the Steamtown is probably the least paid national park in North America. Maybe even the world.
Jay, you are not in Kansas (Hawaii) anymore!
You had a great video today. Those old trains. Isn't there a way to get rid of those trains? YOU HAVE SHOWN US MANY OLD THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF. BUT THAT WOULD NOT BE GOOD FOR YOUR CHANNEL. I ALSO REALLY LOVED YOUR HAWAII ADVENTURES.
Love the videos my man. Do you take requests? There are a few places you need to see. One is an old factory set to be demolished this year... get ahold of me...
thanks. again for showing off all these cool places
Lots of that stuff is pre 1900, so older than you think. Restoration is done a lot by volunteers. Time and money are always a factor in restoration. I do restoration in Kentucky and have spent thousands of dollars of my own money towards projects. So if you want to help. Donate to your local museum, time or money. Too many to work on and not enough people, so we would like to save them all but we can't.