Re: Jay Wimer Has Passed

Kelly Anderson Wrote:
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> John Cole Wrote:
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> > i have mixed feelings about Jay having been the
> > target of his wrath several times years ago.
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> Welcome to the club. I notice that no one
> employed by the RR has seen fit to post any
> positive words about being acquainted with Jay. I
> recall a recently retired president saying once
> how he didn't know how they managed to run the RR
> in the years before there was an internet peanut
> gallery second guessing their every move.

Kelly, he told me the same thing when he was working at Roaring Camp before he even came back to Chama as well.


I don't think there was a single operating company or officer that Jay didn't at first smooze up to and later (just like clockwork) turn against. Tim Tennant tried to work with Jay allowing him to put his personal web cam above the bay window of the depot. Tim said he was promised by Jay to give the RR a feed off that camera for the RR's web site, well, that NEVER happened, only at the goat until the Friends put up all 3 of our cameras for all to see. That brief honeymoon only lasted a few months before the RR and Friends bashing started up again. It is hard to do your job when you are stuck in damage control mode.

For YEARS we would run into visitors during work sessions who still thought the RR was still closed down because of the Lobito Trestle fire even though it had been repaired a year later because of what they read at that goat.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/02/2022 12:51PM by John Cole.