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[quote user="Lord Atmo"] actually i need to give this one some thought......can i at least keep my avatar? that one's not supposed to be against UP, just why i dislike SD60Ms[/quote]I suggest that you do join the C&NW Historical Society.  I was once a member, and I buy their magazine often.  My interest focused on the M&StL, and they cover that line as much as they can.  Maybe change your avatar to C&NW. But I think there is no point in lamenting what has been lost in the world of railroading.  The list is endless.  It ought to be consoling that such a massive body of books, documents, illustrations, diagrams, photographs, and hardware (including locomotives and rolling stock) survive and are preserved to tell the story of what the railroad industry has lost.  So at least what is lost is not easily forgotten.  And just because it is gone does not mean that it cannot live on in one's focus of interest.  After all is said and done, the whole experience is in only in the mind.  Some people model railroads that disappeared decades ago.  Other people make paintings.  These attempts to recreate a lost era are especially facilitated by the massive body of documentation that fortunately survives.My interest began in the then-present era of 1960.  I could sense the age of steam, but it was gone, and I deeply regretted being born too late.  Then I was pulled back into the 1930-1950 era and lived it vicariously through books, photographs, and other forms of study.  And then I was pulled way back into the 1880-1900 era, which I found to be impossibly rich.  I looked at old newspapers on microfilm, bought historical books, researched company records, and ran ads in small town newspapers offering to buy old photographs.  I found that lost world and made it a part of me.
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