You hit the nail on the head!

BOB2 Wrote:
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> All of these museum and operating groups are in
> various states of "trouble" due to an aging
> population of contributors and volunteers, to
> maintain and operate an aging equipment roster.
>
> Many of these organizations are or have been
> poorly managed, with disparate and unfocused
> missions, or missions that are unobtainable with
> the resources available. Lack of business plans,
> poor performance in getting grants and long term
> financial support, factionalism among members or
> boards, and a failure to develop a strong public
> or private donor base of support are all too
> common in these organizations. Many of these do
> not own a permanent facility, either.
>
> Many of these groups will fail in the next decade
> as the current leadership dies off, if they have
> failed to develop and empower a new generation of
> leadership. The controversies over Feather River,
> Niles, and GGRM are an examples of this problem
> among RR museums and collections. Many of these
> groups need to merge, since they don't or shortly
> won't have the resources or personnel necessary to
> maintain or operate these collections.
>
> Several of these collections will need new homes,
> and new relationships with the agencies that own
> and operate the lines they operate on, or reside
> on. Factions of old geezers whining about the
> other factions of old geezers is not conducive to
> that relationship building.
>
> Lesson learned: Change of die.