Cobleskill Coal. Co.

Compare 2006:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=163092

with 1983:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=132499

So... who wants to get together and help repaint the sign on the side of the old Cobleskill Coal Company?

A decal, maybe?

I hope they make it a State Historical Site, or at least County, to preserve it properly before it falls down or something; it'd be nice if they could even restore it a little bit

Mem160 wrote:I hope they make it a State Historical Site, or at least County, to preserve it properly before it falls down or something; it'd be nice if they could even restore it a little bit

"They?" They who? The structure is on private property... I was just musing that it would be great to restore the letting on the building... I'd be happy just to get the brush cleared away...

i didn't know it was private property, thought the building could be saved, otherwise why bother painting it....If CP owns it, it will be gone soon enough....

I was talking about sneaking in there in the middle of the night, cutting all the brush, repainting the sign... pure fantasy on my part!!

OK Now I got what yor saying
BTW....you know it is coming out later this month in HO Scale

Go to www.branchline-trains.com and click on Coming Attractions, then scroll down to the bottom and click on Cobleskill Coal Co. to see three color photos of an HO model built from the kit that Branchline will be releasing in its Laser-Art Structures line shortly.

Hire some graffiti artists to do it, they could probably have it completely redone out of spray cans in one night -

Otto Vondrak wrote:I was talking about sneaking in there in the middle of the night, cutting all the brush, repainting the sign... pure fantasy on my part!!

The D&H Coal just a few feet off the ground would be trivially easy. The one high up on the side of the building, over the other roof? That would be a toughie. You'd practically need to rent a bucket truck. We could start with the lower one and see how it goes. When do you want to do this? It's getting a little cold this year to paint. Some time next summer?

RussNelson wrote: When do you want to do this? It's getting a little cold this year to paint. Some time next summer?

Yeah I'm sure the property owner won't mind! lol! We'll cut some brush, paint some logos, bring out a grill, have a few hanburgers... it will be a grand ol' time!!

I always thought that was RR property

Otto Vondrak wrote:

RussNelson wrote: When do you want to do this? It's getting a little cold this year to paint. Some time next summer?

Yeah I'm sure the property owner won't mind!

Oh, were we inviting him to help? I was thinking maybe not.

Actually .... it's not a totally crazy idea to ask. Ya never know how people feel about historic preservation, particularly when somebody else is volunteering to do the work. "Hey, you want us to paint your building for you, Tom? Can we? Huh? Please?"

Mem160 wrote:I always thought that was RR property

Yeah, I really don't know. I'm just kdding around about all of this. Of course, if the owner of the property is game, so am I. I bet we could round up ten of us to take a very large model railroading project of paint and lettering!

Here's my shot from this past September:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/290 ... d82a06.jpg


-otto-

This proposal is no longer as brash as it might first appear.

A volunteer committee has recently repainted the "Robin Hood Flour" sign at the main street corner in downtown Cobleskill, only a few blocks away.

Cobleskill used to be a major shipping point for buckwheat flour.