I think people need to lighten up a bit, it is nice to see there are people out there who aren't afraid to dream and to do something that to many of the good, solid citizens of this country is a 'frivolous waste of time', it is nice when grownups can in some ways return to being kids and actually allow themselves to be dreamers, to do the crazy thing, whatever. The donors aren't being defrauded, unlike some people who shall remain nameless, they aren't promising a rate of return on the money invested and then stiffing them, no one is being deceived or defrauded, people know this is a will of the wisp and they donate hoping that this in fact someday will happen, and hopefully they are not donating money that they need to eat or whatnot. Some may say "well, why don't you donate money towards something useful, like a charity", but that is ridiculous, one doesn't preclude the other, and there has to be room to dream and to shoot for the moon, and if people want to 'waste' their money on it, so what? And if they can build this, wow would that be the ultimate in scale 1 to 1 modelling and if they can break the speed record, it would be an adult version of what we used to do with our trains back in the day (if we were so lucky), 'racing' the engines
. Heck, if I had the money, I would fund building a J1 Hudson, that would be the ultimate for me.
As to whether a T1 is the right engine or not, I leave that up to personal choice!
