[RITSlist] Coach #319 "Narcissus"

Wed Apr 4 15:32:51 CDT 2007

Dick, 
IIRC the car is pretty much in the same shape as delivered although there is a screen to show movies in the front end of it. (been years since I was in it).  

To understand better logistical issues you have to know that  Moingona Iowa which is to the southwest of Boone down in the Des Moines River valley.  The car sits next to the depot there but it's a good 500 yards or so off of the paved highway so it'll have to be trucked out of there and then north to Highway 30 to get it at least to Boone before it could be laid on rails.  

I don't know if he is still there or not but there used to be a guy at the Mamie Eisenhower birthplace who kind of was the guru of the BCHS...want to say his name was Larry Adams but I don't know if that is correct or not..Nice fellow..very knowledgeable about the area.  I seem to think that at one time someone at the Boone and Senic Valley has stated that they had thought about bringing the car out of there but the cost to do that and restore it was pretty outrageous for thier budget.  

The more I work full time the less I remember from my days of having time to go poke around.  Somewhere at home I've got some photos of it too that I'll try to send you. (I remember taking pictures of the trucks at the time as they amazed me..)

Other sites of interest about the car and the museum

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~cwhung/kate.html

http://faculty.simpson.edu/RITS/www/equipment/moingona/moingona.html

http://homepages.isunet.net/bchs/BCHSKateShelleyRailroadMuseum.htm

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Sent: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Coach #319 "Narcissus"

Tom, for some reason I couldn't open any of the attachments.  From your 
description it does seem to have possibilities.  Has there been any 
changes made at all to the car sine it was RI owned?  Is it railworthy 
so that it can be moved by rail, or will it need to be trucked to 
wherever it goes?
Dick Hutchins

On Apr 3, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Tom Stoffer wrote:

> Last summer my family visited the Kate Shelley museum in Moingona,
> Iowa. They have Rock Island coach #319 there as well, and we were
> allowed to go inside and look around upon request. The gentleman who
> gave us the tour mentioned that the Boone County Historical Society
> really doesn't have the funds to maintain it, let alone restore it. At
> the time didn't inquire more about the coach's future. They used to
> use the coach to show a video about Kate Shelley, but do not anymore
> because they cannot air condition it, and it is rather "oven like" in
> the summer.  The coach has also been apparently used for target
> practice by pellet gun owner. Some of the windows were broken with no
> apparent attempts at repair.
>
> To get to the point, does anyone else have better knowledge of the
> condition of #319 since summer of 2006? And does anyone know if the
> Boone County Historical Society would want to give #319 a better home
> in the interest of saving the coach instead of slow death due to lack
> of funds? IF the BCHS would want someone else to assume the proper
> care and feeding of #319, I think it would be great if we (RITS) could
> acquire the the coach. What do the rest of you think?
>
> If anyone would like to photos I took of the coach last summer, email
> me off the list and I will share them with you. One of my photos was
> on the RITS website, but I can't open it up for some reason. Can
> anyone else open it?
>
> Tom Stoffer
>
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