OK, .. help me understand this ... we keep getting suggestions raised about how to alter the running of the trains to cut costs.
Am I missing something, or isn't running the original type STEAM railroad part of the BASELINE set up in the original charter ... ? You know, that whole preservation of an historic asset as a means to draw tourism to the area to offset welfare costs to an impoverished economic area for the two states ?
Seems to this observer, the only real option is to hold the state's feet to the fire of commitment on an investment that pays a staggeringly high return above cost and to not keep looking for ways to undermine the original mission ... like diesels or welded rail or polycarbonate bullet trains, or whatever. How about offer the states an historic scrapping of the last 64 miles of track, they can pocket all that hard cash, and then pay out thru the axx for eternity in welfare for the area ? Gawdammit, what other state-owned property pays its way, let alone does so in spades ? This operation is a gold mine. They need to start treating it like one.