Re: Sponsor a Volunteer! Ride with Us on 08/30!!

Michael -

The celebration on 08/30/10 is NOT about the train, it is about the VOLUNTEERS.

If you want to contribute some additional funding to Alan in order to restore #483 in time
for her to play a cameo role as herself on 08/30, please feel free to do so.  Roger Hogan
began raising money for this in 2004, and I joined him in 2005, but we only raised about
$4,500 between us - which is just not enough, I'm afraid.

The "re-enactment" train will be only a rough approximation of the 1970 original. Most of us
were in our late twenties and older in 1970 - late sixties and older today - and most of those
able to be with us on 08/30/10 will probably prefer to ride at least half the way or more as we
proceed from Lobato to town. Soni suggested last year that some styrofoam rocks be tossed
onto the track in The Narrows so we could more accurately re-enact the clearing of the rails,
but just one or two shovels of styrofoam would probably do me in, along with the rest of us
"Five Old Farts" ...

- Russ