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> > > > > Greg, if I was paying $5000 for a dome
> seat
> > > to
> > > > > watch the 4014 stomp up Echo Canyon, I'd
> be
> > > > > pissed.
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> > > > I suspect, or at least I hope that anyone
> > who'd
> > > > shell out that kind of loot for just a ride
> > > would
> > > > be someone who has a pretty good idea what
> > > they're
> > > > getting into.
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> > > I'm impressed that someone can be pissed
> about
> > > something that hasn't happened yet and that
> > they
> > > are not going to.
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> > Not only that, but those ticket prices were
> done
> > that way as a fundraiser towards the Golden
> Spike
> > Foundation and the Union Pacific Museum using
> only
> > 80 passengers. Remember folks, someone has to
> pay
> > for all of this when its done! It's amazing to
> me
> > how everyone assumes it's the UP just trying to
> > "stick it in the back" of the consumer without
> > actually looking at the ticket website.
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> I never said where the money was going one way or
> the other. I knew it was a fundraiser, but that
> was not the point.
> I just said I wouldn't pay that, which is my
> opinion. Why is everyone always trying to make a
> big deal out of statements and
> trying to make it negative! Geez!!!
> Greg
Greg, my statement wasn't an attack on yours or anybody's but really directed to a larger very dominant and ill-informed public opinion that people have made about that small excursion for 80 passengers. If you are on Facebook, trainorders, or any train related forum you'll know what I am talking about.
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