Re: The march to Pleasanton
Author: E
Date: 09-07-2015 - 11:36
Some of you people need to learn to read.
I never said NCRY has to move. I said they MIGHT, sine they do not own the property they occupy.
Now, on to other things:
GGRM got kicked out of Hunters Point. I never said they are getting "kicked out" of Niles Canyon.
WHY the Portland groups got kicked out of their roundhouse in Brooklyn is beside the point. The point is that they DID.
KRM's first, flood-prone location was in a City Park. They moved to county owned ground, then got booted out of there.
IRM's first location was an industrial plant. They outgrew that area and were "encouraged" to move by the land owner.
In Dallas, the government entity that owned Fair Park wanted all that railroad stuff gone.
In Houston, the park they occupied wanted them out.
All of the above have one commonality: The groups involved did not have control over the property they occupied. In all cases, what started out as a mutual relationship went south when whoever actually owned the ground wanted it or needed it for other purposes.
Also, take note of the fact that most learned a lesson, and they now own the property they occupy, as they don't want to go through that again. Portland, KRM and IRM especially so.
In the northeast situation, the City tossed them, sold a few piecesd and scrapped everything else.
And have none of you been watching the Catskill Mountain Railroad drama, where the county is doing everything they can van to evict an operating, successful, all-volunteer, tourist/historic operation so they can tear out the tracks for a snowmobile trail?