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...Number 90 has a point.  1309 during rebuild had issues.  Track does not suddenly self destruct....  HW one car funeral observation may be spot on.  Maybe a whole new management group neefs to be installed...

You are being awfully hard on them, Dominic. And you have obviously bought into the totally misleading Drive-By Media's so-called "story" about this. And as usual, they got it wrong.

The railroad does not need 50,000 ties. It needs about 16,000. And they will get those ties installed. But their focus has been in getting the 1309 done first. With the 1309 ready to go, they can use it as a fund raising vehicle to raise money for the track rehab.

But there coud be collateral damage.  There arr some very well run rail museum and operating groups.  But one or two "bad actors" makes everybody look bad.  This could turn people off to support ANY rail organization........

I don't see this happening at all. Well-run organizations build their own relationships with industry officials and railroads. I know a little about this because of my 34 years as Operations Manager for NKP 765. Here's an example:

Back in 1985 we solicited the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) to run trips with the 765 between Gateway Yard in Struthers, Ohio and Station Square in Pittsburgh. Two years prior, the P&LE had dealt with some serious operating problems with another steam locomotive that had run on their railroad. When we went into the P&LE offices for our first meeting with their company officers, the Vice President of Operations opened the meeting by saying, "This ain't that g**-dammed <name here> engine is it?" When I told him it was not and I showed him a couple of letters of recommendation from company officers at other railroads we had run on, the doors opened and we enjoyed a great relationship with the P&LE.

@Big Jim posted:

What the WMSR doesn't need is more doom & gloom armchair railroaders!

AMEN!

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