Re: Interesting RYPN thread

I have been butting heads with him over there and I think he is a legend in his own mind. There are foamers on all boards with no experience in how things are really done and some of them throw out really wild ideas, but for the most part people with knowledge will explain why something won't work and all of us readers will learn and benefit from it.

I can just imagine what he would think of the headers we had to replace on the Cumbres Pass snowshed. I guess we either had to build a building to protect it or let it 'historically' collapse because we didn't repair it for fear of altering the historic fabric. Most of the time there are no black and white answers, only judgement calls, that should certainly be well thought out before you proceed. The same is true of steam engines, there is nothing deader than a cold engine, and while you can arrest decay by having it stuffed and mounted in a building to preserve it, there is no comparison to the sights, smells and sounds of a hot engine doing what it was built for, hauling a train down the rails.

Him implying that all of the posters here are not credible because they didn't react correctly to a post about 13 years ago to a problem that existed and I pointed out has been dealt with over a decade ago and is no longer an issue is just a little over the top. Time to move on.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/2017 11:00AM by John Cole.