Re: (rshsdepot) Guilford, CT - Abandoned Amtrak Buildings Still In Limbo

["fred fep" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Yeah, ain't those politicians swell?

It is still a crime to destroy a part of the nation's heritage, no matter
the petty monetary concerns (that won't be remembered at all in a hundred
years but that station may have been appreciated still...

Paul
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "JIMBEAR" <ribear_@_cox.net>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>; <jdent1@optonline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Guilford, CT - Abandoned Amtrak Buildings Still In
Limbo


> Yes, they do. They have to attempt to run passenger service on an
extremely limited
> budget. They also have to pay property taxes and carry insurance on all
abandoned
> property (just in case some idiot gets injured while trespassing and gets
a sleazy lawyer
> to sue them). If you and the people in that community think it's so
historic (ancient is
> for Egypt, Greece, and Rome), then you and they should cough up the money
to
> preserve it. The property was offered to local government -- probably for
nothing --
> but they debated for years about funding., and did nothing.
>
> And if you're interested in some of the "better" things they have to do
with their money?
> Why don't you ask Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska (one of Amtrak greatest
opponents)
> why Amtrak was forced to spend $25 Million ! to build a new passenger
station at an
> airport in Alaska to handle luxury cruise ship passengers so the tour
companies don't have
> to provide luxury coaches to ferry the passengers 20 miles from the docks
to the airport.
> Alaska Railroad (which earns a fortune from the cruise traffic) paid for
the line, but Amtrak
> (which has no trains in Alaska, and earns NOTHING from this traffic) had
to pay for the
> station !
>
> Jim.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fred fep" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
> To: <jdent1_@_optonline.net>; <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:22 PM
> Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Guilford, CT - Abandoned Amtrak Buildings Still
In Limbo
>
>
> > This is disgraceful, doesn't Amtrak have better things to do with their
> > money than eradicate ancient landmarks???
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jdent1_@_optonline.net>
> > To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:31 PM
> > Subject: (rshsdepot) Guilford, CT - Abandoned Amtrak Buildings Still In
> > Limbo
> >
> >
> > From the Hartford (CT) Courant...
> >
> > Abandoned Amtrak Buildings Still In Limbo
> > January 8, 2003
> > By MAURICE TIMOTHY REIDY, Courant Staff Writer
> >
> > GUILFORD -- Three years ago, Amtrak tore down a 150-year-old barn that
had
> > served as the town's train station, shocking town officials who were
> > planning to rehabilitate the historic building.
>
>
>
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> The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
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