Whiner Police Wrote:
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> What exactly do you want Portola to do with it?
> It's been cleaned and the paint touched up, along
> with other minor repairs. It needs a new traction
> motor IIRC. Why don't you contribute funds or
> labor and help instead of complaining or assuming
> the museum will scrap it?
>
> We all know you have a love affair with the 4450
> but I'm sick and tired of your posts criticizing
> the FRRS for having to make the difficult decision
> to scrap it. The reason 4450 was scrapped was made
> public many times over and were perfectly logical,
> especially considering that attempts to re-home it
> failed. Let's not forget that WPRM is a WP-focused
> museum, not a SP one.
>
> [www.altamontpress.com]
> ,96781,96821#msg-96821
>
> To assume everything there that isn't under some
> sort of full restoration is likely to meet the
> same fate as the 4450 is ignorant and
> disrespectful of the museum's accomplishments and
> purpose.

With attitudes like that. Its a wonder why museums such as yours find it difficult to attract newer members. Used to donate alot of money to the FRRS over the years, well until the alleged scandal. Hey but I don't know you from a hole in the ground. And you don't know me. One of these days this 36 year who spent many a summers as a youth in Portola will find a RR museum that would appreciate my extensive tenure as an HDR and welder. Hell how many Diesel mechanics do you know with a CCO? But hey that's irrelevant to an egomaniac such as you come across.

I would rather talk about the mechanicals of SN 712. And what it would take to make her operable again.

-HUTCH