Reply to "We Need Your Help to Save a 4-6-0 from Being Scrapped Next Month"

Rick RowlandsOGR Forum Member

PETE S posted:
The councilman said that at no time did city council decide the disposition of the locomotive and is claiming it to be a council decision. He also failed to mention any Texas state imposed EPA deadlines. The video cut off at his question of being open to public hearings.
Yea, just spend 45k to extend the track, grease it and drag it forward!
Pete S

No Council did not make the decision because expenditures under $25,000 do not need Council approval. The bid came in at $24,000. Who can abate a locomotive and remediate soil and include enough of a profit margin to make it worth your while for $24,000? Nobody can. But add in the $35,000 value of the locomotive as scrap and it can be done.

Now that environmental cleanup contract DOES exist. Council is acting as if it does not for some reason.

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