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[quote user="Thomas 9011"]As far as ownership issues are concerned, every park locomotive I have ever seen was owned by the city that it rests in. Even if it was sold to a individual or a organization the city can easily condemn the locomotive and take ownership of it. In nearly all these cases the original paper work (if any), and the people who sold or donated the locomotive either can't be located or are deceased. This eventually leads the locomotive to be labeled as abandon, returned to the city, and sold off as surplus.  I am all for this company who wants to remove this locomotive out of the park and get it running again. They have a plan and at least they are willing to put some time, energy and money into it. The other option of letting the locomotive rust to death in a location that no one seems to know about. I was in Topeka about two weeks ago and even the people working at the Overland station said they didn't know about the #3463. One old man said they did have a locomotive on display at the fairgrounds but it was moved years ago up to Minnesota. Another man said there was never any steam locomotives on display in Topeka. Good lord the people in Topeka are one beer shy of a six pack.[/quote] I am not too surprised that the GOS people could not recall any locomotive.  That’s a little humorous.  I think I understand your point that you prefer to rescue an old locomotive from the park and get it running again.  But people are skeptical of the plan, and feel that the locomotive might just become so much world scrap iron if the plan goes awry.  In my opinion, there is a lot of pie-in-the-sky about the proposal to use the #3463 for the new experimental steam locomotive.  But they might have garnered the wherewithal to see the locomotive moved to Minneapolis, and then have it fall into oblivion or worse.    It is not fair to conclude that the only possible destiny for the locomotive is to be given a chance to run again—or—to rot in a public park.  The other destiny is to give the locomotive the home in Topeka that it properly deserves.
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