Re: Losing Track of Time ... and Reality

mikerowe Wrote:
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> Of course I am always right! That's because
> I'm perfect!   I'm humble too!

We already knew that Mike - you really don't need to remind us every five years or so ...    
As for myself, I'm not humble at all - I'm an Arrogant Bastard and don't you forget it!!

> What do we do, Russ, with the many operating
> museums and tourist railroads that don't even
> have a steam locomotive on the property? I guess
> we will have to seek a papal dispensation.

I never said anything about tourist railroads, just serious museums.  Tourist railroads are perfectly justified in doing whatever they need to do to attract flatland touristers.  Why, I've heard that some of them even put their own names on their equipment!

> Consider the Canon City and Royal Gorge Rail-
> road, one of the most (if not the most) successful
> tourist railroads in the country. The nearest steam
> locomotive is thirty miles away in Pueblo, CO, in a
> state that can charitably be described as preser-
> vation vandalism (IMHO).

I've heard the State of Colorado referred to in derogatory terms before - like when it didn't pay its fair share of C&TS funding, and especially when the Histörical Society thereof took over and nearly destroyed the Georgianatown Loop-de-Loop - but calling it a State of Preservation Vandalism is a new one on me!!

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender