Erik H. Wrote:
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> How about permanently moving the 4449 to San
> Francisco, build a small facility/museum just west
> of 4th & King in San Francisco, and then running
> it on Saturdays (and/or Sundays) as a CalTrain
> special down to San Jose, where the engine can
> actually run at 79 MPH like God and Lima intended,
> on its original home trackage?
>
> It'd be all on CalTrain owned trackage so no UP or
> GWI involved; the 4449 would be somewhere where it
> has a historical tie to when the engine was built,
> and the CalTrain corridor has a lot more love for
> all things Southern Pacific than up north.
>
> Let the Portland groups just try to get the SP&S
> 700 running...or maybe consider getting Woodburn's
> 1785 restored and run excursion trains on the
> Willamette Valley Railroad to Mount Angel and
> Silverton. Or the OR&N 197 to run on the Oregon
> Trunk.

It would be worth the travel costs to watch you
tell the Portland people and the 4449 people that
after all the money, sweat and tears they put into
the 4449 and the new building, etc. that YOU think
it should all be handed to a city/people that have
shown exactly ZERO interest in it.

I'll even donate to the tar-and-feathers fund.