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Reply to "Reading 1187 Going to the Age of Steam Roundhouse"

@Rich Melvin posted:

"Plans" are fine, but what about funding? All the plans in the world are useless unless you've got the funds to carry out the plan.

The Age of Steam Roundhouse  has the financial resources to make just about anything happen in this industry, thanks to the legacy and the substantial endowment left by its founder, the late Jerry Jacobson.

I agree plans are highly dependent on funding; in my comment, I was mostly relaying what RRMPA had said during their Q&A. Also, this was an aside referencing the possibility of RRMPA acquiring a Reading T1 (not the 1187 which was in AOS's 'collection plan'... according to their press release, they have been eying it up for years). I posted the link to the specific question and response from RRMPA staff in an earlier post, here it is again:

 https://www.reddit.com/r/train...ontext=8&depth=9

While funding always plays a huge role, they do not talk about it in their response. 

Edit: RRMPA also spoke about their procurement process in this link, here they do talk about the funds needed for transporting it. 

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