Tie Plate wrote,

"I can only assume you're thinking of the incident where the hapless 2472 crew managed to destroy the trailing truck of their tender during a split switch derailment on one of the final Hunters Point steam-ups. 50+ paying fans watched as an inattentive crew made a very expensive mess of things in slow motion."

As someone who:

a) was there that day
b) fixed that broken switch
c) helped fix the damaged tender truck
and
d) certainly has NO love lost for a lot of the GGRM...

... that derailment had a lot more to do with Hunters Point's awful track conditions, than with crew inattention. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Come to think of it, I don't recall you there helping to fix that awful track situation, that switch in particular, because, ummm, almost nobody showed up to help us fix that awful track situation.

I will never cease to be amazed how many folks put the "paying fans" ahead of the volunteers who put their blood, sweat, physical well-being, vast amounts of time and oh yeah, hard earned money towards keeping this crap running. Hint: some of us don't know exactly why we keeping doing this stuff, but satisfying "paying fans" ain't high among the reasons.