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Looking toward the future, you mentioned that some of the foundational steps are being laid to explore bringing steam locomotive number one back into operation.
Are there other goals or sites that you have set on as far as either the railway itself or the interpretation of its history?
So in terms of the railway itself, the big one's getting the second locomotive back in steam.
But I've got a lot of faith in the next couple of years, there's going to be a giant ribbon that gets driven through and all of the fun that comes from that.
The geometry of the site is such that there's probably not going to be a track extension, but the track has to maintain to a good standard.
As the operation season tends to shift a little bit, we used to be very popular in the summer, and now numbers are going up.
I can't really speak too much to how the museum interpretation is done that'll be very much on the town's collection manager but the museum continues to evolve continues to tell different stories some stories that were not as well represented in the past and a big impetus for that is also we're now sort of the last operational decades the railways 40s and 50s are now slipping starting to slip a little bit from memory It's less something that people are like, oh yeah, I rode the railway in 1948, loved it, I'm coming back.
And that changes the needs of the interpretive materials and changes the clue of the clientele as well.
My last question for you, Charlie, is as you look at the work that your society has done and does, And how the fruits of that can be seen by the public and what they get out of it.
What makes you most grateful that you've become part of this Railways Ever Evolving story?
I'm well aware that there were many before me and it's very cool to have played a role.
On a personal level, I'm most grateful for the skills I learned while I was there.
I don't work on the railroads in my day job, that you can be involved in these steam operations without being somebody who's had a career on the railroad.
Looking toward the future, you mentioned that some of the foundational steps are being laid to explore bringing steam locomotive number one back into operation.
Are there other goals or sites that you have set on as far as either the railway itself or the interpretation of its history?
So in terms of the railway itself, the big one's getting the second locomotive back in steam.
But I've got a lot of faith in the next couple of years, there's going to be a giant ribbon that gets driven through and all of the fun that comes from that.
The geometry of the site is such that there's probably not going to be a track extension, but the track has to maintain to a good standard.
As the operation season tends to shift a little bit, we used to be very popular in the summer, and now numbers are going up.
I can't really speak too much to how the museum interpretation is done that'll be very much on the town's collection manager but the museum continues to evolve continues to tell different stories some stories that were not as well represented in the past and a big impetus for that is also we're now sort of the last operational decades the railways 40s and 50s are now slipping starting to slip a little bit from memory It's less something that people are like, oh yeah, I rode the railway in 1948, loved it, I'm coming back.
And that changes the needs of the interpretive materials and changes the clue of the clientele as well.
My last question for you, Charlie, is as you look at the work that your society has done and does, And how the fruits of that can be seen by the public and what they get out of it.
What makes you most grateful that you've become part of this Railways Ever Evolving story?
I'm well aware that there were many before me and it's very cool to have played a role.
On a personal level, I'm most grateful for the skills I learned while I was there.
I don't work on the railroads in my day job, that you can be involved in these steam operations without being somebody who's had a career on the railroad.
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