Seems that all TUT has been doing is running a Ponzi scheme on rails along with bait and switch, false advertising, and who knows what else. Remember the 2005 excursion from Oakland to Portland. Advertised as powered by (or at least lead unit) E9 #6051 from the CSRM. The problem was, TUT's advertising was the first the CSRM heard about it. Then it was going to be WP #2001 from Portola. Amtrak (supposedly) nixed that idea. Then along came that ex-VIA F-9 that Skow had painted in Black Widow. That thing only made it to McCloud when an air leak sideline it. I was told by the man who repaired it that the unit should not have been run due to rather the rather poor condition of the locomotive.

I better stop here.