Re: Golden Pacific Rolling Stock
Author: Pactrail
Date: 03-02-2008 - 17:08
Bubble Burster Wrote:
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> GPRR does not have a good relationship with OPR.
>
> GPRR has little or no relationship with PNWR.
>
> POTB washed into a canyon and won't be back for
> two years, if ever.
>
> Mount Hood is for sale and unlikely to be starting
> a new operation during that. A new owner wouldn't
> need double deck cars for that anyway.
>
> Which leaves what? Rides on the 1.5 mile Peninsula
> Terminal? Rides on the UP main? Bilevels on the
> Willamette Shore? *snicker*
No one I know of said there was a relationship with OPR, PNWR or POTB, nor did I say that IF ANY operation occured that it would / could be in Oregon What I said was wait and see, and that the cars were moved for a reason.
Mike
>
> Remember folks, Mike used to be GPRR's spokesman
> and who claimed he had invented both the Lewis &
> Clark Explorer and the new Washington County
> Commuter Rail concepts, but that they had been
> "stolen" from him by people at ODOT and PNWR. (I
> even bet this post is still floating about the
> internet somewhere on a certain discussion board.)
> He has a slight Don Kirk tinge to him.
>
> So be patient folks. When Mike reveals the new
> great plan, it will likely be really really really
> gutbustingly funny.