Cprr Wrote:
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> 1. I do not think that the administration of CSRM
> will not let it out of the building.

Correct.

> 2. If they did, it would take about 5 mil to do
> it. It might be better to better to build a new
> copy instead of taking a priceless artifact out.
> You would not take the Spirit of Saint Louis out
> of the Smithsonian in DC to fly? No you build a
> copy.

Also correct, except you low-balled the restoration cost.

> 3. As to the UP letting run, it has been said time
> and time again on this board and TO that there is
> no restrictions on a foreign steam on their rails.
> You might hav to run it under Amtrak insurance.
> 4449 has to run to the Portland depot on UP rails
> to get there.

Throwing the BS flag here. It has NEVER been as you describe.
180-degress opposite. Let's properly define an "excursion"
as a non-UP steam locomotive pilling passenger cars with
ticketed passengers aboard, sponsored by a third party.

Please list all of them over the last, oh 60 years or so.
And I mean the ones that do not involve trackage rights,
such as BNSF Keddie to Sacramento, or a light engine
move from the house to the depot to pick up the loaded
passenger excursion train and run it on someone else's
railroad besides UP.

WELL? WE'RE WAITING!

> As with all excursions, the host rail traffic
> dictates the access to the line and schedule.

Also BS. Even in cases of Amtrak steam trains, the
Railroad has the final say and is not required to
give reasons. Such decisions and policies are made
st the highest executive levels; they do not live
and die on the whim of a roundhouse foreman at
Flat Wheel Junction.

If that is NOT the case, please explain the last 20
years of CSX steam excursions, Amtrak or otherwise.