This war with the dear leader started when he took over and bad mouthed everything the old crew had done for decades. That's hard thing for anyone to forgive and forget just because he got the 4014 out the door. Remember all the presentations showing all the quote half assed stuff the old crew had done to the 844 and 3985. Presentations where it was stated all the inferior parts that where used on both locomotives specifically on the boiler of the 844 of which he trashed filling it full of mud etc etc etc...... The biggest factor for all the discontent with the dear leader is because the trashing of the old crew wasn't done in private it was done out in the public eye. Nobody likes to be trashed publically!

The dear leader has such super high standards for everyone else so I think its fitting to hold him to the highest of standards as long as he is there. I wonder what the volunteers that put a ton of hard into the 3985 to get it going only to see rust away in the back shop and stripped of all kinds of parts, super heater units trashed left outside to rust, locomotive information manual's thrown away and the list goes on and on. All the self inflicted issues with the 844. All these thing should just be overlooked because hey he got a 4000 class locomotive somewhat running for all us to see. All of the stuff mentioned above is BS. Not the air fingers quote naysayers that hold the DL's feet to the fire.

AHT