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Why no modern RR in MR?
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<p>[quote user="Autobus Prime"]</p><p>*Rest of post deleted to save space* <br></p><p>You find milk trains, the great limiteds, RPOs, tons of local passenger trains, local freights, plenty of switching at local industries and other customers, hundreds of Class 1 roads. Plenty of tiny villages had coal yards and oil dealers, lumber yards and feed mills, freight stations and team track. Now the stack trains just fly through. You find steam, and if you're before the diesels, it's doing the job it was built for. A lot of people don't understand the fascination with steam, but Youtube has lots of great videos that can help. Watch some Chinese QJs at work there, starting heavy trains, slipping on grades, just clanking by, and picture that spectacle on every train. We'll never see that show again, and that alone is worth the trip back..</p> <p>But there's more than the trains. There were section crews and their work sheds everywhere, engine terminals full of activity (steam needs a lot of attention!). There were all those stations in Chicago, and a depot in most every town. A lot of those bare foundations had a building on them. A lot of those rows of empty bridges, with one or two tracks carrying the stack trains, carried a row of tracks. The cities and the trolleys hadn't been abandoned for the suburbs and the freeways. </p><p>[/quote] </p><p>I completely agree with you! Back in the day, my hometown boasted a trolley line and a regular rail line, and had two stations and a carbarn. Now the railroad and both stations are underwater (long story), the trolley barn was demolished and the foundations paved over, and the only remains of anything is a dozen or so photos, and this spike: [url]http://s233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/?action=view&current=IMG_3855.jpg[/url]</p><p>I wish I could go back to those days...</p><p>But the modern era has its draws too, especially for those who grew up in it...<br></p>
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