Blatant Localist Wrote:
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> Ernesto in Modesto Wrote:
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> > The UP, the county, and the state don't need a
> > bunch of loonies getting hurt or falling off a
> > cliff or a bridge either. We probably saved
> > someone's life.
> >
> Bunch of loonies? If you've ever seen one of
> Lydon's field trip events out and about in the
> county, it's a bunch of old folks. Seriously.
> Retired professionals, academics and senior
> citizens, not kids from Uncle Charlie's Summer
> Camp or the usual Santa Cruz counter-culture
> types.
>
> But go ahead, pat yourself on the back and give
> yourself credit for believing you got such an
> event cancelled by just posting on this board if
> it makes you feel so good.

No doubt the audience for Lydon's tours are exactly the people you describe and not loonies. And it would have cost my husband and me $130 to participate, so it ain't cheap either. But no one on this board is solely responsible for this getting cancelled as the trouble started over on another board by someone else a couple of days ago when they poasted a thread entitled Let's Get Paid for Tresspassin"!! It then migrated to this board. Actually, one of the people who read it on the other board is good friend of mine and a retired long time UP exec and his immediate reaction was "the lawyers will NEVER allow this". He didn't notify the lawyers, BTW, but you would be surprised if you knew how many corporate railroad people DO monitor this and other boards, not necessarily to catch stuff like this, but just to "know" what's going on "out there in the railfan world".
I think the initial reasons for posting about it at all were because it was obvious it had been done before and people were puzzled as to how and who gave permission to do so since it is such a far cry from the usual trespassing no-no's of the railroads.
C.