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Jbari10
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Hey all,
I have a few questions on tourist railways, and yes I am new to the whole forum thing and also new to how tourist railways work.
My first question is about trackage rights. My basic understand is that the major freight railways generally don't want to give up track rights. How true is this and/or how difficult is it to obtain rights, even if it's simply crossing over a main line?
Secondly, it seems that funding is usually pretty limited to the tourist railways, which for steam heads like me, bums me out. There's plenty of us that want to get in, volunteer as much time as we can before our wives tell us no more, and help preserve the antiquated equipment. The answer is always the same: we don't have the money to that. I'm all for crowd funding, or raising funds or whatever it takes to raise funds, but there's part of me that thinks, man there's got to be a better way. I guess the question for this is, IS there a better way to raise money?
Thanks in advance folks!
I have a few questions on tourist railways, and yes I am new to the whole forum thing and also new to how tourist railways work.
My first question is about trackage rights. My basic understand is that the major freight railways generally don't want to give up track rights. How true is this and/or how difficult is it to obtain rights, even if it's simply crossing over a main line?
Secondly, it seems that funding is usually pretty limited to the tourist railways, which for steam heads like me, bums me out. There's plenty of us that want to get in, volunteer as much time as we can before our wives tell us no more, and help preserve the antiquated equipment. The answer is always the same: we don't have the money to that. I'm all for crowd funding, or raising funds or whatever it takes to raise funds, but there's part of me that thinks, man there's got to be a better way. I guess the question for this is, IS there a better way to raise money?
Thanks in advance folks!
