It was pretty much the same north of us as well. As most manufacturers of furniture moved to places that were larger in size many small centers also discovered the car and began to move to where the jobs were. Then the same thing started happening to agriculture as well. Bigger elevators made it harder for smaller centers to do much business.
The only rail line that exists now is the Goderich and Exeter RR north of Stratford now.
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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Murphy Siding Did the railroad go away because the towns dried up, or did the town dry up because the railroad was taken away? How is it in other states? Is losing the railroad the kiss of death for a small, rural town?
No money, no town, no town and no money, no railroad.
As the song from Cabaret says,
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/cabaret/money.htm
In the county where I live there never has been other then a couple of small logging rail roads. They made no difference when gone.
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N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
As I drive around the country I always try to think - What is the economic engine that created this town; What is the economic engine that keeps it alive today; Will the economic engine continue to support it into the future?
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