Don't get me started. The problem in seeing 4294 run isn't at the nuts and bolts level. The problem is failure to see that CSRM and the shops are a world-class rail museum and TOURIST ATTRACTION. I use caps to emphasize that tourism is an increasingly significant component of CA economy. The Sac shops could be evolved into a major support source of manufactured parts and services to support all tourist steam (non-profit). Enter 4294. She should be the rightful flagship of such a grand proposal. she could be rebuilt on site. 4294 would need to be retrofitted with roller bearings. But this is nuts and bolts. My favorite fantasy would be for UP and the State of CA sit down and work out some areas where a cooperative arrangement similar to Metrolink for the state to purchase track and create common-carrier corridors. Where the state owns the ROW, they can be self-insured, making steam operations more economically feasible and subject to public operation. I would like to see UP sell the rights to SP title and identity to CA for use on tracks owned by the state. A lot of CA history is embedded in the SP name. The global theme in all of this is to promote rail solutions to transportation problems in our ever-increasingly-overcrowded state. 4294 gets my vote to represent such an idea.