December 13, 2000 07:25PM
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Earl,
First off, let me apolagize for obviously upsetting you. It was not my intention. I have great admiration for the UP steam program, it's just fine and dandy. I may not have the amount of first hand experience that you do, but I am usually aware of not seeing a steam locomotive. Steam programs have died all over the country, sad but true. Personally I don't care whether or not a railroad is obligated to let steamers run. I wasn't talking about California, I was talking about Oregon. In fact, since you referred to 1999, the Daylight almost didn't run. The UP wanted to have her dead head in a freight train. Luckily some people pulled some strings
and UP let her run. Nowadays the #4449 gets out occasionally, mostly on the W&P or P&W. UP doesn't want her or almost any other steamer they don't own running on their lines. I see nothing unreasonable about hoping to see machines that made railroads great running on their home rails again.
Taylor
BTW, I live in thw Willamette Valley and was seven in 1992. Seven year olds don't tend to head to California all that often.
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