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Doctor, I feel you take a very stereotyped view of a National Park Service Ranger. Not all of them are "backwoodsmen" nor do they "plan their lives" out with the NPS. Yes, there are some that do make careers out of it, but the majorty of Park Rangers are Part-time or Seasonal. I have a very good friend who is a Park Ranger at Steamtown, and my brother is a Park Ranger at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (St. Louis Gateway Arch) They are not all outdoors people. My brother is a historian, my friend is a life-long railfan. Park Rangers apply to work for a specific job at a specific park, they are not transfered between parks. And not even the stupidist person I know would take an outdoorsman, or a historian, ect. and plant them to work on a steam locomotive, which requires mechanical skills to work on, skills that not everybody has or is willing to learn. Steamtown has had on average three people working on the little 0-6-0. All of them are qualified and are worth their salt, as my Steamtown ranger friend says. They don't have "Jimbo and Dave from yellowstone" working on this thing. <hr />  And to all: We cannot point fingers and place blame with inaccurate information, or without knowing exactly what is happening finnacially and management-wise at Steamtown. To wit- Ninety-nine percent of us here are not "in" (me included) with Steamtown and do not know what is truly happening, and thus cannot do anything more than speculate on the situation at hand. The Baldwin is nearly back, and lets not forget there is plenty of static equipment around Steamtown that needs a layer of paint. All of it costs money, stuff that is is not easily spread around these days.   Just my expirience- Truthfuly, S. Connor
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