Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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>
. . . All my dealings with Jay were positive
. . .
> and I think Jay's organizing of the overnight
> stay in Osier led to my favorite Cumbres and
> Toltec excursion
. . .
davidtltc Wrote (approximately):
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> {I have} many good memories of having the
> whole eastern side of the railroad all to our-
> selves
. . .
Rather odd, is it not, that after vehemently bashing me for running a charter westbound from Antonito in the afternoon ("in the wrong direction at the wrong time of day", IIRC) that Jay would do the same thing himself only a few years later. Maybe he was just jealous that his #1 target, The JéBêWèX, caught a book-cover-quality photo at Phantom Curve on 05/25/2010 . . . *
> Please don't anyone get too bent out of shape
> on this quote, but I heard through the grape-
> vine that the Durango RR Historical Society
> (315) took a big hit on this charter and never
> received payment for services render{ed},
> though we riders of the charter paid our part
> for to ride this charter some of the funds didn't
> make it to their final destinations. I'm not sure
> how much they were shorted
. . .
John Cole Wrote:
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> Ain't no grapevine Dave, I posted the fact earlier
> in this thread. That money would have sure come
> in handy right now helping to pay for the 1472 on
> their engine. Soni Honegger was paid by Bridgett
> for hauling the 315 back to Silverton. Someone
. . .
> didn't pay their bills.
David & John
et al -
I've heard rumors that he had stiffed the C&TS, but was unaware of the DRHS #315 problem. I can forgive Jay the personal insults he sent my way, to which I long ago responded,* but this actual harm to the RR and related organizations – along with his well-known part in the sabotage of the #483 – K-28 swap – is REALLY hard to swallow. I'm not sure in which of the circles of Dante's
Inferno Jay is now dwelling – probably not as close to the center as Vladimir Rats-Putin & his 'Useful Idiot'** are headed, and one or two layers deeper than my fellow Curmudgeons and I will eventually be – but even the atheists among us will probably agree with Shakespeare's assessment that
“The evil that men do lives after them; The {little} good is oft interred with their bones.”
-
Roosso
* See [
ngdiscussion.net]. For additional commentary, search the NGDF for "Carpetbagger of Cumbres" / All Dates.
** AKA, per Rex Tillerson,
'El Pinche Moro'
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2022 07:10PM by Russo Loco.
