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#1! I'm going to have to say heavyweight based on what I believe you mean by heavyweight.
See the "Wanted" section of TRAINS classified; try Ebay; check with local hobby shop(s); local railroad clubs and railroad historical societies (sale or donation); Sourthern Cal? Try Orange County Railroad Museum.
Several simple points: increase in use of autombiles followed by the Eisenhower Highway Trust; increase in air travel; end of WWII increased emigration to suburbs; increase of oil and gas over coal for heating; the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway taking a lot away from east coast ports; aging Northeast industries closing and moving south and west. The political and social reasons and powers behind these events have been talked to death on several other threads.
Inaugural of NYC's 20th Century Limited?
Ok. Scenerio: Air pollution is out of control, very dangerous situation exists in your area. All land has been used up by industry and homes. Two reasons you can't build new or expand your highway system for autos or trucks. Airports cannot be enlarged in any way for the same reasons, but passenger demand is up. There are no navigable rivers or canals nearby. Railroad technology is further ahead than what is being used, tracks and rights of way are underutilized. What is the natural determination
Bucyrus, that is almost the exact conditions that exist in the Northeast! NJ can't build anymore roads; the NY Metropolitan area has poor air quality, clogged roads, jammed airports, no place to build more but plenty of underutilized rail ROW's. Its like that virtually from Portland, ME to Norfolk, VA! The scenerio is too real. But more to my other point. Nothing has ever been accepted by the public which hasn't been "sold" to them through a well planned and executed marketing
Very little has ever happened without a planned or unplanned indoctrinization. We have smoked for years even though we know it will kill us because it was made so attractive by marketing, for instance. People bought war bonds and savings bonds because they were marketed as much as being the patriotic thing as they were a good buy. Read what I have written above about how things happen. We don't just wake up one morning and decide we want or need something...from what we eat, drive, do, think
Bucyrus said : But I don’t think that all of the desire to consume is simply the result of marketing/ advertising indoctrination....There has to be more to the formula than just brainwashing people into consuming what you want them to consume. . So what do you eat for breakfast? Where do you have lunch? How' bout dinner? You have a need to eat but some marketer has forced you into the answers to those three questions! So if need were the sole criteria for success or failure, there would only
' I'm in the East, so you know if I'm thinking of a train, it has to be here....just saved you the first question of 20..
I give up...I no longer have time to ride this merry-go-round of rhetoric.