tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post3851232199523114056..comments2024-03-28T03:23:42.275-04:00Comments on Digital Notebook: $10,000 Helps Restore Colebrookdale Parlor CarEvan Brandthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00978107579447279224noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post-68892658779602701692016-06-06T21:55:01.259-04:002016-06-06T21:55:01.259-04:00Wow there are people not drinking the Crookbrookda...Wow there are people not drinking the Crookbrookdale Kool Aid! I really found it very arrogant that after people lost there jobs with this bank merger that they would accept this for lack of better terms bribe to make it all better. Oh well we know its all about a group of spoiled brats getting to play chooch chooch with this pie in the sky notion that this will benefit Boyertown. I think it will be quite entertaining when the reality starts coming to the surface and Boyertown realizes the scam they have been part of!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post-17587969745202652082016-06-06T19:15:12.758-04:002016-06-06T19:15:12.758-04:00As a resident who lives a half of a block away fro...As a resident who lives a half of a block away from this wonderful tourist attraction, I too would love to know where the $2M went. While the train "may" be good for the business owners, it's not good for the residents who have to listen to the train and put up with the smell. The residents of Boyertown helped the local businesses get to where they are today. And they don't care about the residents because the tourists will make their businesses boom. After attending some of the town meetings and hearing the business owners treating the residents like idiots, I will no longer patronize some of the local businesses. Maybe they should invest in a better parking lot. I witnessed handicapped people trying to walk through that parking lot and almost fall. Just a liability claim waiting to happen. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09871707759424811842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post-8070081346487640602016-06-06T19:14:35.334-04:002016-06-06T19:14:35.334-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09871707759424811842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385359808043148998.post-48745836457894463652016-06-06T14:30:55.134-04:002016-06-06T14:30:55.134-04:00I wonder how all the employee's of BB&T th...I wonder how all the employee's of BB&T that were laid off in Boyertown feel about this? First of all, what did they restore? This car was never a parlor car, is way over done and was never like this originally. This is Mr Guest's grand idea to be the best tourist railroad possible on the backs of volunteers and at the expense of getting people to donate to his cause. According to the railroads tax forms Mr Guest made a salary of $70,000 in 2014. I wonder if he donated back to the railroad any of that money. At $50 a head to ride from Boyertown to Pottstown and back people are not lining up to ride this car with only 8 people total riding it this past weekend over 3 trips. The seats are arranged like a subway car, so that all you see are the people across the aisle from you, not the scenery that they advertise. The seats don't look comfortable and are thinly padded. Mr Guest even wants you to pay for the seats with a donation of $1000 for a chair and $2000 for a love seat. This man wants luxury at the expense of others instead of what all other tourist railroads live off of, which are the fares for the train rides. If you really want to ride in a parlor car, go to Strasburg. There they have 2 beautiful parlor cars with comfortable seats and they are air-conditioned. They are laid out so you can see the scenery and you ride behind a steam loco, not a diesel, at half the price of this ride. Their cars were rebuilt right there and with no donation money.<br />Another thing since you printed this in your article. What is the breakdown of where this $2 million dollars that went back into Boyertown? I'm sure there must be a record of this, since you printed this figure.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01377669201553433681noreply@blogger.com