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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN This is great news........what raliroad will it be operating on? [/quote] Zach [8D] Man oh man, did you hit the nail on the head. [;)] The 819 is a Cotton Belt built engine. Cotton Belt was a subsidiary of Southern Pacific and ran on Cotton Belt tracks. This is pretty much basic knowledge to the railfan. When Amtrak went swimming in Mobile all the railroads raised the liability insurance minimuns they required to either $200,000,000 or $250,000,000 (I can't remember which since it has been a while). I was a member of the Museum then and worked the steam excursions as a car host. Our annual trip to Tyler, Texas left Pine Bluff on a Friday morning arriving in Tyler early evening. Some years there was a Saturday excursion, this happened the last year we ran. Then the return trip began on Sunday morning arriving Pine Bluff that evening. The liability policy carried was for 10 million dollars and cost the club somewhere between 7 to 8 thousand dollars. Our group was just breaking even between ticket sales and consession stand sales. So when the liability insurance went up few museums or clubs could even afford the cost of a liability policy. You just don't run the excursion without one either. [:(] Now for the "what railroad" to run it on. That is a can of worms now. There are some politics in play there that are not general knowledge. Everyone knows that UP has taken over SP. UP has its own steam program. Now some of the volunteers at the Arkansas Railroad Museum also volunteer with the UP steam program (or did). Without going into the politics lets just say that hopefully these guys will be able to talk Steve Lee into allowing the 819 to run again at least on home rails. There were rumors that the 819 would never run again on the mainline but like I said I am trying to leave the politics out of this post. So wi***hese guys good luck and hope the 819 sails the rails once again. The 800s were good engines and capable of pulling a nice long train. [:)]
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