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  The Flying Yankee could be scrapped and it wouldn't be missed just like it hasn't been missed for the last 30 years. Moving The Flying Yankee Will Come To Symbolize Something. Rome.   But the idea of moving this train down to Concord is still a good one. It will cost the state well over $30,000.00 to bring it down from Lincoln. Then as a lighted, vandalized static display visible from I-93 it will come to symbolize what is wrong with Concord and it's growing similarities with that of Rome.   New Hampshire should not be in the railroad preservation business. There is no heritage with this train, only costs. This Flying Yankee train is nuisance nostalgia that needs to be scrapped.

 The Flying Yankee train is nostalgic nuisance that needs to be cut up and scrapped.     Retired Green Mountain railroad executive Frederick Bailey made a recent unsupported argument that this train should be moved up to the Bartlett rail yard where after languishing in Lincoln for years something meaningful will actually happen to this historic state owned train. It won't.     The Flying Yankee train set has been a state liability since it was donated by  Bob Morrill, it was also a political deal cut by former Executive Councilor Ray Burton. The now mostly abandoned train sits needing over $275,000.00 in direct rehabilitation plus another $200,000 a year in operating costs and an expensive liability policy as it's lightweight construction and articulated wheel sets are prone to derailments. None of this changes if the train were to be moved up to Bartlett. The Flying Yankee In A Different Time.    Last fall I appealed to Governor Chris...