"Displaying a cold steam locomotive is like displaying a corpse" quote

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Hello people, i was wondering if anyone knew the source or origional phrazing of the above quote? Thank you.

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Sounds like something DPM* would say, but I don’t recall seeing it recently.

I’ll keep looking,

*David P. Morgan

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Google led me to a thread in Railway Preservation News:

The contributor credits a Paul Merriman with a similar quote to the one you show.

Paul Merriman once said that “putting a locomotive on display was like propping up a corpse”.

Could this be the one you’re looking for? Paul Merriman bought the Southern 4501 and saved her from the scrap line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_4501

Hope that helps, Ed

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Never heard of it, Google didn’t look promising.

Are you going to the St Albans show on Sat?

Good luck,

Richard

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When I saw the title of this thread I was hoping it was about “cold steam” live steam locomotives. These ran on dry ice and received their speed/direction controls through DC in the track.

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I saw an O scale cold steam locomotive in operation at a Florida Live Steamers meet around 30 years ago.

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I have not heard anything about cold steam since then.

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-Kevin

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At the risk of seeming to be a terrible cynic … there is a lot of money to be made in this world displaying corpses …

Dave Nelson