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They just don't make trains like they used to
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Ummm.... The rumor of the god old days is just that. A rumor. Yes the rich were rich and took summer long vacations to cooler climates but the rest of us worked 52 weeks a year and only the blue laws got us a day off. Only one spouse worked? Children's and sometimes the adults clothes were made at home. All clothes were mended at home and washed in water heated on the kitchen stove more often than not. Bread was baked at home. All of a families meals were made at home. If you were lucky you had a gas stoves and gas lights most of the working class had coal or wood stoves and kerosene lamps. <br /> <br />If you were hurt at work they hired someone else. If you wanted to join a Union you were likely to fine some Pinkerton thugs waiting to bash your head a little. <br /> <br />When you got old you kept working, not because you wanted to but because you had to unless you had family that would take you in. Ditto when you got sick. <br /> <br />Make that IF you got old. Take a stroll through an older Cemetery. What do you see that you rarely see in a new Cemetery? No not headstones. Children, babies, families wiped out in the same month or week from Cholera or some other malady you never hear of today. <br /> <br />Thank God we live today. <br /> <br />Steam engines are just amazing. I have only seen steam tractors up close and personal but they are so impressive. They move so quietly. The hissing and popping when they are sitting still speaks of restrained power but when they are unleashed they are so unexpectedly quiet but still the earth shakes from their power as they go by.
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