--Of interest to RR buffs: the Northern California Skunk RR is to shut down permanently after the Sept 2 run, due to lack of operating capital. I managed to get my first and probably last ride on it yesterday; sad to see it come to this. They've got a good-as-new Mikado class locomotive (that's just been thru a 20 month refit) to pull the train now and it's going back into mothballs in just one week! --Oh, and if anyone's got deep pockets one fellow I talked to said that $1.5M would buy them out, altho it would take another $1M to keep it running for the first year. Sigh...
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