@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:The sad note: There IS plenty of $$$ to fix all of these existing problems, however, it's continually being wasted on non-essential projects such as heritage scheme paint jobs on locomotives.
Locomotives need repainted just like anything else does to keep them from rusting. Who cares what color they get painted? The cost is an atom in a molecule of a drop of water in a bucket of money.