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[quote user="gabe"]<p>I don't think I can compete with the knowledge that has produced some of the answers thus far, so I will give my fascile list of amaturish cities that have not made anyone's list:</p> <p>Atlanta, Memphis, Dallas, and Kansas City. I realize there are probably reasons why these cities make the amature list, but I have seen as much mentioned in recent rail development of these cities as compared to any. </p> <p>Another interesting list is declining cities, like St. Louis, which is still important but seems to have lost some of its luster.</p> <p>Gabe</p>[/quote]<br><br>None of these cities, historically, generated the traffic base of the big Official Territory cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, or Detroit. Memphis was not a major east-west gateway in the realm of Chicago, St. Louis, or Kansas City. <br><br>Kansas City certainly has my vote as the most train-watchable city in the U.S. The action is much more compact than Chicago, and thanks to downtown being on a sizeable hill, there are good views. Chicago is regrettably flat. <br><br>Dallas? Substitute Fort Worth. Fort Worth was always the rail capital of the pair as it had the stockyards, grain elevators, and feed mills. Dallas had a nice Dallas Union Terminal but architecturally not very distinctive, in my opinion, in contrast to the fabulous art deco monster that the TP built in Fort Worth. The GC&SF (Santa Fe for those of you from elsewhere), reached Dallas on a virtual branchline, for chrissake. All these nuggets aside, Fort Worth was a regional articulation point and did not have the population or industrial base of Houston.<br><br>Atlanta is today a major traffic destination by virtue of sheer size, and growing in importance as a hub with the continued rapid growth of southeast ports such as Charleston.<br><br>City with the worst decline: Milwaukee. It's a gaunt remnant of its former rail greatness.<br>
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