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sd70accsxt700 wrote: I also see you are one of the young guys that know it all like a lot of the others do to, with out even haveing been able to get out in the world. My point was and is that there is and are young people who dont care about saving stuff and could care less about older stuff. Just because you and everyone eles aperently have never talked to one, dont mean that they are not there. You and everyone else is naive if you think that all young people care about saving stuff.

I never saw anyone argue that. Only that there may be more "younguns" who actually care than you like to let on.

We can argue this back and forth to no end (I know plenty of older folks who don't necessarily care to save equipment, either), but moving on...

I see that some are still taking my original comment out of context. I even tried to clarify in a later post. Oh well...

When I was 22 years old I had just been fired from my job and two weeks later begun a project to dismantle and move a 260 ton stationary steam engine out of a steel mill for preservation. I had no money and was collecting unemployment, but did have the Internet and an ability to bring others in to help with the cause. This was no locomotive on tracks but a stationary engine, each piece weighing 20 to 50 tons had to be lifted by cranes onto trucks. I raised the money I needed and today that engine is the centerpiece of an industrial museum that I built from the ground up with my bare hands. Google "Tod Engine" sometime.

I've come from nothing and done what many thought was impossible. You would be amazed at what you can accomplish if you put your heart, mind and soul into it. Actually, that is the ONLY way anything of value ever is achieved in life.

IS THIS HORSE DEAD YET ???

Flatlined and buried, in fact.

Best of luck to those who actually have the means to preserve one of these beasts.