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Does it have to be realistic? What about a y2k version of "Supertrain"? How about a futuristic sythesis of neo-retro-railroading in the vein of a "Logan's Run", "Soylent Green", and "Silent Running"? What about a sci-fi series on a parallel universe where modern steam is still king? Remember the old Spielberg movie "Duel" about the mysterious psychotic truck(er) chasing Dennis Weaver all over desert California? We could have a railroad version where an old Alco is always chasing a Metro around the Rust Belt. We could have a take-off of "Lost" in which a motley collection of survivors of an Amtrak cra***ry to survive in the American Outback. Maybe they could make a series out of "Runaway Train" in the vein of "24". We could have a realistic take-off of "The Grapes of Wrath", except it would be based in Montana, and the "Joads" lose their co-op elevator to evil BNSF thugs ("No kin of urine are a gonna grow no more wheat 'round here") who tear up their branch line, and they collect what's left of their family and head to the promised land of the Powder River Basin, where it is rumored railroads are still being built, but when they get there they find it's all a big scam, and they have to take jobs polishing the dinosaurs at that park in Rapid City, then they hear that Nebraska co-ops are getting competitive rail rates and they head down there and try to start up their own co-op in the Sand Hills, but the locals chase off the "Montanies", then one of them gets kilt by a gang of "Dakoties" who also lost their co-op to monopolistic rail rates and terminal consolidation............
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