tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post3242001520310561926..comments2024-03-28T03:23:42.275-04:00Comments on Digital Notebook: Colebrookdale Railroad Gets $10K from Mascaro, Offers Thanksgiving Message to SupportersEvan Brandthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978107579447279224noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post-68031235650067315252017-01-04T15:00:33.753-05:002017-01-04T15:00:33.753-05:00Update: Despite all the FREE publicity this railro...Update: Despite all the FREE publicity this railroad gets, it only managed to haul 18,653 passengers in 2016, with over a 1/3 of that coming from late November to the end of December. So Nate has fallen short of his goal of hauling 20,000 to 30,000 passengers a year. Not only that, but if he was telling the truth about hauling 30,000 in 2015 as is posted on their website, then his business dropped almost 38% from 2015.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post-914682495457184652016-11-24T22:29:06.879-05:002016-11-24T22:29:06.879-05:00Here we go again, throwing good money into the bot...Here we go again, throwing good money into the bottomless pit of Nate Guest's endless spending habits to be the BEST.<br />A couple of questions? You have previously stated that you hauled 30,000 passengers last year, now you state 20,000. Actually this year to date you have hauled roughly 11,000 passengers, which means you have to haul 9,000 more till the end of the year to even make that statement true. I'll be keeping tabs on this. Also you make many bold statements on the economic impact you are having on Boyertown and it's businesses, but yet it's all generalization statements and no facts to back it up.<br />What are these 13 businesses that started up and if they did how are they doing? Does Boyertown benefit from any taxes from your railroad directly or just the taxes for those new businesses you said you attracted? How did you create so many jobs when all you want people to do is volunteer and donate or are these non-paying jobs? I know you created your own job and paid yourself $70,000 in 2014. I can hardly wait for the 2015 tax returns to come out to see how much of a raise you gave yourself.<br />Finally, stop bragging about how you are the BEST tourist rr in the east. You belittle some very fine outfits by your bragging, because these other outfits have to live within a budget set by their ridership. Believe me if you ever stop conning people out of their donations to your railroad and had to live off of your ridership instead of your ego, you would be no where near where you are. That glorified subway car you call a parlor car doesn't hold a candle to the recently refurbished parlor car on the Reading and Northern RR with its plush comfortable high back swivel parlor chairs. <br />Again, let's hear some solid facts behind all of these generalized statements. After all you must have them to make these statements to begin with. How about it Boyertown? Are you 2 million dollars richer than the year before from money generated directly from the railroad? And what about Pottstown?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com