Re: The Mount Rainier Lives! (not yet)
Author: x
Date: 09-23-2022 - 09:16
Fred Wrote:
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> I don't think it will ever get started. No one on
> the board knows a thing about running a railroad
> or a multi million dollar business. A very rich
> investor who has been involved with tourists
> railroads for 40 years and has owned locomotives
> offered his help and was willing to put up the
> funds to help get it started but they know it all
> and didn't want any help. It's going to be another
> Chehalis railroad. this group told the industry
> what they are like when they said that they were
> not going to run any Polar Express trains this
> year. They are fools living in la la land.
Well, getting a Polar Express running this year would be a challenge. There's a lot of work to do, such as track work, diesel loco and passenger car maintenance, marketing, hiring, INSURANCE, and probably more.