Want to save steam railroads? ... go get a degree, start a wing-ding business, make freight cars full of cash, and fund these projects.
I know of one guy who did this -- Ross Rowland. The Bell of Taco Bell did also, but his family had him committed before he could squander their entire inheritance. Well, that's how I heard it anyway.
A Scenic director once told me that the only way to come out of this business with a small fortune is to go into it with a large fortune and quit before you lose it all, which was the voice of expeience if I ever heard it
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"Time spent with CATS is never wasted." -- Sigmund Freud
"Nothing endures but change." -- Heraclitus
"C'est le meilleur des mondes possibles." -- Candide