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Re: An open letter to the Director & Trustees of the Colorado Railroad Museum

August 03, 2015 09:32PM
Not to belabor the point, but the issue at present appears to be one of priorities as opposed to funding. A museum that can build the people shelter seen in the attached photo and has been on an equipment purchasing binge recently( two White Pass passenger cars, two standard gauge passenger cars and a standard gauge outfit car) as well as a track and general construction binge is quite clearly not lacking money.

The CRRM is capable of doing excellent restoration work, if it is a priority. Right now it does not appear to be so. All available resources are being put into, and only into, projects that enhance the carrying capacity of the special events train. Your ideas are good, but the sad fact is that right now if you walked in with a stack of cash and gave it to the museum, it would only be used towards projects that enhanced the current goal of increasing attendance at special events in order to meet the next tier of SCFD funding. Even if you specified that the money be used on a specific car and that car only, nothing would happen in the forseeable future as all staff time, volunteer time and round house space are committed to the special event train projects.

Unless the Museum leadership chooses to set new priorities (or revert to the ones of a few years ago), all the money in the world will not change what is going on.

Jason Midyette
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