Re: Rio vista question
Author: Digger
Date: 10-08-2018 - 17:58
Steamfan Wrote:
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> fkrock Wrote:
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> > Please keep in mind that the Rio Vista museum
> is
> > owned by the Bay Area Electric Railroad
> > Association. BAERA was a rail fan group that
> held
> > regular dinner meetings in the San Francisco
> East
> > Bay with slide shows. BAERA ran regular fan
> trips
> > for its members. It bought its first cars to
> > prevent them from being scrapped so they would
> > still be available for fan trips. They kept
> their
> > cars in abandoned railroad roundhouses near the
> > Bay Area.
> >
> > The California State Railroad Museum is one of
> the
> > best railroad museums in the United States. It
> is
> > located about one hour driving time from Rio
> Vista
> > Junction. BAERA members finally decided that
> they
> > could not compete with the state museum so they
> > went back to being a trolley museum.
>
> If this is the case then why do they keep the WP
> steam locomotives? Shouldn't they go to CSRM,
> WPRM or to the PLA?
They keep them so nobody else can have them.