The Mouthpiece doth continue to spew disinformation . . .

>I had NOTHING to do with the "Committee for Responsible Museum Management" at Western Railway Museum.

Then why was your name all over it?

>The person who posts here as "Dr. Zarkoff" did.

Fred, you couldn't be more wrong if you deliberately tried. Stop using your keyboard and stay out to lunch.

>BAERA in 1960 opened "The California Railway Museum" at Rio Vista Junction. It was primarily a streetcar and interurban museum for the cars which had been acquired to prevent them from being scrapped.

By this time, it also had acquired a Pullman and a caboose . . . It also tried to acquire the wood D&RG combine from the WP, but Gil Kneiss had already arrange its donation to the Maritime Museum (this car is now at Sacramento)..

>Some of the heavyweight passenger cars were owned personally by one of the BAERA members. He later donated them to the museum.

Correction: "them" = "one", the Circumnavigator's Club, which doesn't fit the "electric trolley" mission statement.

> Although it began primarily with electric railroad equipment, WRM began adding steam and diesel equipment.

By the time it acquired the property at Rvj, it had already branched out into railroad equipment. You weren't around in that era, I was.

>Robert Dollar #3 sat in the shop building at WRM for over ten years.

And how long was the SN 1005 sitting in the shop? I forget, but it was longer than "10 years".

>When the person in charge of this project could not come up with a budget or timetable for completing restoration of #3 and getting it out of the shop,

As a matter of fact, he did this several times.

The same standards and stringent requirements were not applied to the electric car superintendent, who either never came up with a budget or routinely exceeded it by 100-300%. How much did the 1005's restoration cost? How far above his original estimate was it?

>the BAERA Board decided to end the steam program. In compliance with Association of Railroad Museum standards, BAERA traded the disassembled locomotive to Pacific Locomotive Association which completed restoration. It now operates on the Niles Canyon Railway. (I rode behind it yesterday).

And here we have fkrock, who once publicly stated that "if the 3 ever gets running, it will mean the end of Rio Vista Junction", now at the steam place playing with steam engines . . . As one of John LeCaree's characters says, "Really now, one does like one's perfidy to be subtle . . . "