[Steam-engine] Protecting US engines from Export

[Ken Hough]

Hi Beth
Pennsylvania has a law preventing any of its historic Railroad equepment 
leaving the state. This was inacted after a ex  Chicago North Shore and 
Milwaukee Railroad Electroliner was repatriated back to Illinois and the 
Ill Railway Museum.
There were two sets of Electroliners built. They ran till 1963. They were 
then bought by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company and turned 
into "Libertyliners".
They covered the rush hour from Norristown to 69th St in Upper Darby till 
about 1980? Then they sat. And sat and sat. We know what happens to sheet 
metal when it sits. It happened. Holes you could throw a chicken through.
One car made it back to Illinois the other went to the Rockhill Furnace 
trolley museum in PA. The Electroliner in ILL got restored and runs. The 
one in PA is being "preserved from decaying". When PA "lost" the first 
Electroliner (remember it went back to it's home state) they enacted a law
preventing any other PA historic railroad rolling stock from leaving the 
state. So how would us "steam heads" get something like that through the 
congress?
Ken


This list has been dead lately, so how about a subject debated on 
SmokStak?
This is a double edged subject for the non US subscribers.



The question is how to protect our US engines from going overseas where
they are perceived as a good deal-compared to the cost of the European
engines?



If memory serves, Australia & New Zealand have laws about not allowing the
engines to leave the country. It seems there was a challenge in getting 
the
Burrells to Great Dorset Steam Fair in 2001 or 2002 for the Burrell 
feature
and making sure they returned.  The return was delayed due to the hoof (or
was it foot?) and mouth epidemic.



Can anyone enlighten us?



Thanks!

Beth

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