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sp4149

May 19, 2020 09:24AM

Registered: 5 years ago
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I imagine that the Durango and Silverton and Maybe the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad are considered valuable assets while Mt. Ranier was strictly a rental and without operations, it would be a cash drain.
Sounds like a business decision to protect their assets and not someone elses.

The company is investing heavily in equipment purchases for the D & S (six diesels) without any operational revenue. Not hard to surmise that they didn't have cash around to subsidize Mt. Ranier until it could be operated profitably.

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NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	Mike	May 18, 2020 07:04PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	mosslake	May 18, 2020 07:21PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	Mike	May 18, 2020 07:30PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	Mike	May 18, 2020 07:34PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	RichB	May 18, 2020 07:58PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	mosslake	May 18, 2020 08:06PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	trainrider47	May 18, 2020 08:06PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	Mike	May 18, 2020 08:33PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	KevinM	May 19, 2020 09:35AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	Reimer	May 19, 2020 12:00PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	Earl	May 19, 2020 12:06PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good? It's Not Remote	sp4149	May 19, 2020 12:38PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing For Good?	Chris Webster	May 18, 2020 09:02PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	Olaf Rasmussen	May 18, 2020 09:21PM
Re: NNG: Derails	Tom Moungovan	May 19, 2020 06:11AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	guymonmd	May 19, 2020 07:45AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	evankamp	May 19, 2020 09:21AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	sp4149	May 19, 2020 09:24AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	trainrider47	May 19, 2020 10:11AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad in Better Times	Greg Scholl	May 19, 2020 12:00PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	et&wnc	May 20, 2020 09:09AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	El diablo loco	May 20, 2020 09:10AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	KevinM	May 20, 2020 09:28AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	trainrider47	May 20, 2020 12:17PM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	Mike	May 20, 2020 09:31AM
Re: NNG: Mt. Rainier Railroad Closing?	Everett Lueck	May 20, 2020 10:14AM
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