[Steam-engine] Protecting US engines from Export

[Ken Hough]

Hey Guys and Gals!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm for getting them running wherever they are sent. I agree
that it's in the engines best interest to go where it will be "loved"
and have the lugs claw the dirt! My comment "So how would us
"steam heads" get something like that through the congress?"
was said because the congress can't seem to do anything correct right now.
Ken

well from this canadian freind i think that it is stupid too restict any
equipt fom going anywere but especially not letting it out the state it 
was
built in that would be like a waterloo out of waterloo ontario or sawyer
massey out hamilton
  ontario or letting any ontario stuff out of ontario here in ont we have
  been dissusing this issue but their you go maybe we sould limit how much
  go out and comes in from my stand point theirs more canadian stuff going
  out this country then american stuff coming here sure stuff like rumelys
  are coming here but their were alot of these tractor originaly sold over
  here as well like any other tractors case john deere allis chalmers 
ect..
  thats my veiw i hope nobody is affended. john 

Jim & Lyn Evans <jevans at evanstoys.com> wrote:
  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?


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[mailto:steam-engine-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Hough Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:42 PM To: Steam-engine mailing list
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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