Re: How's RGS #20 Comin?

James Wrote:
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> HighCommander Wrote:
>
> >
> > What about "what amounts to a piece of scrap
> from
> > an insignificant railroad"?
> > That amounts to heresy and would get you voted
> out
> > of the Otto Mears fan club.
>
> That's simple truth. Name me any five railroads
> in the U.S. after the RGS shut down that would
> have regarded the 20 as anything more than scrap.
> Heck, name two. Thousands of engines in better
> shape were sent to the torch. The RGS cannot
> rightly rate as a major railroad. The F&CC, even
> less so--just one short line out of many hundreds.
> The 20 represents a literal case of one man's
> trash becoming another man's treasure.
>
> Heresy it is, perhaps--but perhaps not. Most the
> RGS fans I know like that road in part because it
> was a near bankrupt, backwater road. It
> represents rural railroading in a way the UP or
> NYC do not. The 20, for its part, represents that
> era and I hope it runs for many years.


James,
Try to separate BS from serious postings. Lighten up! Most of my posting is BS and should not be taken too seriously.

Russo:
Whadda you mean take the curmudgeon exam, I wrote the durn thing.
Bill G