The director is reported to not be supportive of steam or a steam guy and the steam died over time as a result. After all selling a loco, that was the best representative of a type of locomotive used in this state from a museum collection, to an out of state buyer as a fund raiser say's enough on its own.


Stathi does wonderful and very skilled work like very few can. But he does come with his own baggage that causes its own issues and has happened at more than one place he has been at.

Thanks for the report on the storage that have more real information and some inner knowledge.

NWRM does great work that is not done in this part of the country and would be best sticking to the wood railroad cars it is becoming known for.

In all this was an arrangement that was predictably never going to work out long term and was probably best that it had never come to be.