[Steam-engine] Protecting US engines from Export

[Jim & Lyn Evans]

So what is worse?  A law that prevents an engine from being sold, so it rots
away in it home state or country, or an engine that leaves the country where
it is restored and enjoyed by many people?


-----Original Message-----
From: steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Hough 
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] Protecting US engines from Export

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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