Just saw this email today on another list, NMRA is going to become another
source of info, time will tell how much CPR content makes it to the list.
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Just so everyone knows: The NMRA recently created a Diamond Club to raise money
($80K+ to date from members) to scan the 100,000 images in our archives, which
range from photos and slides to blueprints of structures, painting & lettering
diagrams for diesels, and so on. This massive scanning project is now underway
and should be partially online in January. The hardware is all in place in
Kansas City and Chattanooga.
Non-members as well as members can visit the nmra.org website and then go to
the archives section (we'll announce the specific URL at that time). For a
preview of how this will work, go to atsfry.com and see how this was done for
the Russell Crump AT&SF collection. The same good folks are doing our scanning
and adding meta-data to each image. The files will reside at several locations
for safety.
Once the images are scanned, we will post high-quality thumbnails that anyone
can view. Images you want can then be put in your shopping cart. When you check
out, the system will ask for your NMRA member number. If you don't have one,
the cost per image will be about twice that members pay, but you can join on
the spot if savings will result.
The NMRA archives are thus fast becoming perhaps the best place for your photos
and other rail data to reside for posterity. If all goes as expected, I will
probably donate my vast original 35mm slide and negative collection to the NMRA
archives.
Tony Koester
NMRA director at large, worldwide
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--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Brian Stokes <dayfornight@...> wrote:
What little I have, they know what (and what not) to do with it.
Of course, the other part of this is why horde it in the meantime?
Get it in to the commons and the odds of it being lost rapidly decline.
That is why projects like the CPHA archives are so important.
Brian S.
Edmonton
On 15-Nov-10, at 12:13 AM, Dean Ogle wrote:
There's a lesson here, guys.
How many of us have made it PERFECTLY CLEAR to our families what to
do with
our stuff when the inevitable happens?
