Reply to "2017 UP 844 Steam Excursions announced"

PingmanOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I don't have a dog in this fight--living in GA, I'll never ride or photograph UP steam.

My thought is that the folks who criticize the "UP Steam Program" ought to SHUT UP!!

UP's so-called "Steam Program" is a PR exercise and a meager effort for UP's revenue.

As a PR program, rather than a truly serious restoration effort, the more negative comments directed at it simply empower the bean counters to argue against it.

Leave 844 alone; let the 4014 be restored to operational status. Two steamers will have been preserved. After that, criticize UP all you want--but, please wait until 4014 is finished. Perhaps they will be donated to something akin to FWRHS and we'll enjoy them in the future. But, if UP pulls the plug, those locomotives are done.

Hot Water, swallow your heartfelt desire to be critical, and let 4014 be saved.

3/17/171:39 AM

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