Steve's Excellent Notes of June 8 Meeting

No. 18 -- VIRGINIA AND TRUCKEE RAILWAY -- Nevada Railroad Reconstruction Chronicles

See noted posted on the Gold Hill Historical Society's website at http://www.goldhillnv.org/GHHS_2009_Jun_Commission.htm

The only comment I have at this point is about the Northern Nevada Railway Foundation. They are going to sell t-shirts! Hooray, that ought to bring in about $10 million.

Also NNRF noted they are applying for private grants. IT'S ABOUT TIME, FIFTEEN YEARS LATER. I truly wish them the best ... but ...

The NNRF does not have the kind of track record or "auditability" to satisfy a private foundation donor, in my humble opinion. The Commission DOES have the track record of taking large gobs of money and spending them to build track.

So it remains a mystery to me why the Commission doesn't apply for grant funding, like they should have years ago. Instead they delegate this to the NNRF social club. Again, I wish them success, but they'd have much better chances if the Commission applied for grant funds instead of continuing the charade that the Northern Nevada Railroad Foundation is an effective fund-raiser. So goes politics.