OGR Webmaster posted:Hot Water posted:This whole sordid mess is an excellent example for any and all organizations to, "Own the property that your collection is on"!It’s also a textbook example of how NOT to run and manage a volunteer organization. Everyone has to be working from the same switch list in order to succeed. Warring factions developed within the ITM that tore the outfit apart.
Amen. I saw this happen at two separate volunteer tourist railroads that I worked on about 20 years ago. The sad part is, the second one was basically a reiteration of the first- apparently no one learned from the first time so they did it all over again.
