OK, let's face it. If You want to either build a business or sell one, what do You do? Lets use a house or car for example: You don't list it for sale in shabby condition. You throw some money into it for the sale. Now in GCRY's case You had two things. First, a FAMILY owned project with a devotion to HISTORY, IE: steam. Same as what Santa Fe did for it's sale. And I call it a SALE, not a merger. Haverty and others "cleaned up" the railroad and made it popular (with stockholders also) by bringing back the red and silver locomotives. Ideas like that. As small as they were, Santa Fe became attractive for a sale. It wasn't long before somebody wanted it. Unlike the SP, which the UP basically just ended up with. The Grand Canyon did a big thing moneywise by running steam. They got a traffic base of virtual unknowns (to what a railroad is and does) and made it interesting enough to get huge ticket sales. I would imagine now that most people riding the train could care less what it is being pulled by. The new owner knows this and dumped the steam program. The yuppie patrons will be OK with looking at a "stuffed and mounted" steam locomotive before boarding a diesel powered train to the Grand Canyon (the MAIN reason they came anyway). I absolutely DO NOT agree with the way that these fine employees were terminated. This didn't need to be a secret. The bridges have been burned. I doubt that if steam were to return that the talented employees would come running back to a job offering that could be possibly pulled out from underneath them again. Yes We are all going to miss the steam, and it was an AWESOME program, but at least the tracks won't be overgrown again with trees and possibly the rails pulled up. I wish the best for the families of those 20 guys. You deserve it!