by lvrr325
At least one website reads to the effect that the switch was re-installed in 1986, but when it would have been removed is not indicated.
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Moderator: Otto Vondrak
eehiv wrote:Kingston Associates (a recycling business) was switched by Conrail from 1986 to 1991 or so.Minor correction.
Otto Vondrak wrote: payments had not been kept up on maintenance (somehow CMRR never got the invoice).How much you wanna bet that Ulster County got the bill and just didn't pay it. That would be typical.
scoostraw wrote:I would truly love to see this all blow up in the county's face.Mr. Scoostraw, check out their Facebook page, U&D Railway Revitalization Corp. Comments are very interesting!
airman00 wrote:I wouldn't get too excited. But at least there is a ray of hope.scoostraw wrote:I would truly love to see this all blow up in the county's face.Mr. Scoostraw, check out their Facebook page, U&D Railway Revitalization Corp. Comments are very interesting!
airman00 wrote:I wish to quote one line from one of the press releases in the link I posted:without devolving into a political discussion, that's how a lot of politics work. Particularly at the local level, in situations like this, where once something is done it's hard to undo.
“It is difficult to avoid speculating that Ulster County chose to ignore inconvenient facts and proceeded in the hope that no one would notice“
I have believed this idea for a long time, that ulster county has used this “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” routine for years.
lvrr325 wrote:Except we’re not in Kansas anymore. The “local politics thing” might have been king in Ulster County, but now the county is dealing with “Washington” and a Federal Agency. That’s a whole other ball game! I understand completely what your saying, but we live in a society of rules and laws, and the laws apply to everyone, including ulster county. Forgive me I don’t mean to get political here, but ulster county’s “song & dance” routine won’t work in front of a Federal Agency.airman00 wrote:I wish to quote one line from one of the press releases in the link I posted:without devolving into a political discussion, that's how a lot of politics work. Particularly at the local level, in situations like this, where once something is done it's hard to undo.
“It is difficult to avoid speculating that Ulster County chose to ignore inconvenient facts and proceeded in the hope that no one would notice“
I have believed this idea for a long time, that ulster county has used this “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” routine for years.
airman00 wrote: Except we’re not in Kansas anymore. The “local politics thing” might have been king in Ulster County, but now the county is dealing with “Washington” and a Federal Agency. That’s a whole other ball game! I understand completely what your saying, but we live in a society of rules and laws, and the laws apply to everyone, including ulster county. Forgive me I don’t mean to get political here, but ulster county’s “song & dance” routine won’t work in front of a Federal Agency.I do believe that was what he was trying to get at; this isn't that uncommon, that people with power who are incompetent inevitably bite off more than they can chew by messing with things that are far more organized than they're used to.