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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl Does any one know which RR in Wisconsin is getting the locomotive? what kind of locomotive is it ? It's difficult to make money on tourist trains, especially if you have high fixed costs such as equipment leases. A note to future tourist train operators. Randy [/quote] High fixed costs of maintaining track (or contributing to someone else's MOW in the case of a trackage rights train like this one) and of leasing or purchasing equipment are often enough to tank many excursion trains. This is especially true when you consider the low headcounts at most tourist railroads, especially those without major attractions. All you need to do is compare the business model of the tourist train at $10 a head on average for passengers with a small short line getting $300 per car to move lumber or grain with 1,000 or so carloads a year operating a couple times weekly. Pretty easy to see that the tourist train has to move 30,000 revenue passengers just to get the same revenues. The Tourist train also has greater costs in that it needs things like adequate stations and restroom facilities (don't forget ADA compliance required) and of course much greater advertising costs just to get people to be aware of it's existence and bring out the customers. Tourist trains are rarely a profitable business as a result. LC
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