"Reservations not a strong as they had hoped." What did they expect when there wasn't anything there until about two months ago and no steam engine until last month!! Hmph! The DMA..... if there was ever an apt name that is it!
So far they have one diesel and...four(?) cars for operations. The steam engine is supposedly undergoing hydrostatic tests and has yet to be fired up let alone tested on the line. Three weeks until showtime! Advertising for summer operations is virtually nonexistant. (Going off the reputation of the GTL Inc. and their 30 years of successful operations and counting on people being ignorant enough to think that it was all due to the CHS and nothing has changed is just another example of the CHS's bungling of this whole fiasco!)
Yep, if I were a Georgetown merchant I would be desperate (I would have passed worried last July!) as well. The season hasn't opened and they are already passing out free tickets to try and attract riders! 23 days.....the clock is ticking........