b&m 1566 wrote:Railfan's Day or Weekend, was canceled because they don't have enough help. I read everyone's complaints all summer long and yet not one of those complaints offered solution or a helping hand. It's easier to sit behind a key board and Monday morning quarterback, everything they do or don't do instead.
I could fully understand this viewpoint, if the other circumstances regarding the railroad didn't contradict it. Last time I was there, I don't think I recognized more than 1 or 2 employees. And I have been going for 20+ years at least once a year. Even a good deal of the "old" timers were missing. So there is definitely politics at play behind the scenes, which has lead to the mass exodus (kind of like how they have not had a GM for almost two years). And honestly, I was disappointed in the experience for the first time. The cars were dirty (not just the paint job on the outside) granted, I bought the cheapest tickets, its not like I was going to be doing a $15,000.00+ charter trip across the country. But there was trash laying about in the car, as well as gum on the seat, both of which appeared that they had been there for some time (the one trash can in the car had trash stacked up the wall, as well as trash laying in a pile beside it). Although I visited on a sunny day, a friend rode the valley train on another day when it was raining, and he got soaked due to a roof leak. The train crew told him to take the issue up with the office, and when he did, the response he got in short was "So, what do you want us to do about it?"