Hoghead wrote:well sounds like your problems are with your management and not railfans. I have been in the railroad industry for many years and I think you and your key board need a VACATION now that we all have a pretty good idea what's going on up there !!
Railfans have dropped several thousand dollars , into a donation box , i set up near the #501 ,over a three year period. i used to change the money into a check and present it at the monthly trustee meetings, then presented it in cash at one point , and i felt it represented visually that a lot of folks ,were responsible for a very thick wad of cash , a lot of pockets and pocketbooks were reached into, getting down off the engine to answer railfans questions, and you know a hand shake , smile and a thank you , for letting some proud dad pose his young son on the front of the locomotive , somtimes the wanted to have their child hold one of my big wrenches , hey it made a memory for them and it resulted in a nice $20 going into the box. Some folks would inform me that they tried to ask a employee some questions and got the " BUFF OFF " treatment. I advised them , that they won,t get that here, and they were welcome anytime to ask away. Russ the owner loved to blast me out for letting a die hard steam fan sliop under the wire for a close up shot with the camera of both of us. , Rus didn,t know my friend is a Mas State Police Tropper from down the Cape Cod area. The cop heard Seybold light into me in the gift shop, rather than disobey an order to explain the tounge lashiong , i gave the State Trooper his vehical description and lic .plate #. . That cop was pissed off at Russ over that stunt. The cop took a photo of it somewhere .ran the plate , everything, I saw my friend the Trooper a year ago, first thing out of his mouth , we are waiting for him, said a bunch of swears and somthing about him taking a different kind of photo of Russthey must have russ on a wanted poster in some locker room at a S.P. Barracks. Please don,t speed while on cape Cod. .