One of my personal "goals" while a member there was to help make the railroad less maintenance-intensive, but the older club members didn't seem particularly concerned about improving the situation
Reading these old war stories is terrific stuff
Tom your comment here reminds me of some Classic Car afficiandos I've met, I asked a guy at a show with an old Bentley how reliable they were, he laughed and said that figuringing out what was wrong with them after they broke down and then figuring out how to fix it was 1/2 the fun, more so if they were stuck in the boonies somewhere and still managed to fix the glitch and bring it home, he said
that victory of inginuity was the most satifactory thing about owniing one.
I still wish I had my own Speed 6 ...