I will exhaust all other efforts before these become gut jobs. That will be a future last resort to keep these running. But I do intend to keep them running. Right now I have a short Amtrak TurboTrain that is working well since MTH repaired it. The VIA Rail is totally dead as are two Amtrak coaches.
I was going to buy a silver/blue New Haven version as well, and planned to recreate it into a current Amtrak paint scheme. Purely fictional of course, but a model train operators ability to rewrite history in our 1/48 scale worlds. Needless to say I spared myself that added nightmare.