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Re: 2 Santa Fe Steam Locos in Sacramento looking much better.
Author: Edmund G. Brown
Date: 07-25-2016 - 06:23
M. Harris Wrote:
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> Gentlemen, this is CALIFORNIA, and the rail line
> is in SACRAMENTO, the CAPITAL. If you only knew
> how hard it is to work with the prevailing
> politics which overlay this railroad, your
> optimism might fade away faster than a good idea
> does in the legislature. We are darn lucky to
> have ANY steam railroad operations on the
> Sacramento Southern RR. Restoration work takes
> place in a dying structure, the old SP Boiler
> Shop. We can't even rescue the building with all
> the legal entanglements attached to it. Every
> year we are told the title transfer is ( ) months
> away, and every time it's a lie. Every single
> machine in the shop has to be tarped because the
> entire roof leaks everywhere when it rains.
> Millions of State dollars earmarked for the
> building were recently lost due to lack of action.
> It just gets better and better.
The Yards will get done, it is just taking more time (!) than anyone wanted. It would have been so much nice had UP cleaned the site and there hadn't been a zillion sales of the land, but hey....it will get done. I've been working an parts of the transfer for years. I also work with the state of Texas, and let me tell you, I find working with California easier than the corrupt Cowboys I have to talk to in TX. Sheesh.
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> Gentlemen, this is CALIFORNIA, and the rail line
> is in SACRAMENTO, the CAPITAL. If you only knew
> how hard it is to work with the prevailing
> politics which overlay this railroad, your
> optimism might fade away faster than a good idea
> does in the legislature. We are darn lucky to
> have ANY steam railroad operations on the
> Sacramento Southern RR. Restoration work takes
> place in a dying structure, the old SP Boiler
> Shop. We can't even rescue the building with all
> the legal entanglements attached to it. Every
> year we are told the title transfer is ( ) months
> away, and every time it's a lie. Every single
> machine in the shop has to be tarped because the
> entire roof leaks everywhere when it rains.
> Millions of State dollars earmarked for the
> building were recently lost due to lack of action.
> It just gets better and better.
The Yards will get done, it is just taking more time (!) than anyone wanted. It would have been so much nice had UP cleaned the site and there hadn't been a zillion sales of the land, but hey....it will get done. I've been working an parts of the transfer for years. I also work with the state of Texas, and let me tell you, I find working with California easier than the corrupt Cowboys I have to talk to in TX. Sheesh.
