So at the risk of a kerfuffle, what’s the deal railroaders have with ‘foamers’?
The theme of 1776 was about government, not repainting locomotives in superficial attempts at patriotism.
Thomas Paine was very influential in starting our rebellion with “Common Sense” in 1776. One slogan:
“No King! No Tyranny!”
Hey you guys were right spring sprung and i got busy outside. I hope yer all doing well. On vacation now in Newfoundland and came across this museum it was closed but judging from the size i didn’t miss much
Did someone say crappy condition?
Oh and one other one stranded here on the island too.
And a speeder to boot.
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Not one museum… three!
The biggest problem with any kind of preservation demands is the need of massive amounts of money to be spent on first stabilization of the item then bringing it back to what it was. That’s what caused the problem with the SS United States passenger ship. The sheer amount of money needed the estimated costs just to stabilize her were in the 70 to 80 million dollars and restoring her well let’s just say they could build and fund any 10 extinct steam locomotives of your wildest dreams forever and still have cash leftover and only have done a quarter of the ship.
Heck Texas just spent IIRC 18 to 20 million dollars on drydock repairs on the USS Texas and the USS New Jersey had similar repairs done.
Like the USA doesn’t house any individuals who could finance these kinds of projects out of their ‘petty change’ if they so desired.
Don’t we have a TRILLIONAIRE in residence?
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Our billionaire class has been remarkably tight-fisted with its wealth. It appears to lack the noblesse oblige once associated with the Rockefellers, Morgans, Whitneys, and others whose names still grace libraries, museums, universities, and hospitals. What comparable monuments to the public good are today’s billionaires creating?
It must be because they are so heavily taxed.
(Sarcasm. Note the difference in tax rates today vs. 75 years ago)
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The “Rockefellers, Morgans, Whitneys and others” were making the contributions when tax rates were lower than they were 75 years ago. In addition the tax code had a lot more deductions and tax credits than exist now, so the effective tax rates were considerably lower than the maximum tax rate. As for wealth, there is a difference between wealth on paper versus liquidity.
The trillionaire doesn’t have a trillion dollars sitting in the bank waiting to be spent. That value is in companies that employ hundreds of thousands of highly paid workers.
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Another thing that irks me to no end, is when people say that the gazillionaires pay little income tax, but fail to state how much capital gains tax they pay.
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