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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jockellis G'day, Y'all, Mr. Antigates, problem is, people do enjoy rails. Why? If you read "Future Shock" back about 1970, you might have seen Toffler's statement that in an increasingly technological world, we hang onto our sanity by maintaining something old. Now Toffler didn't mention riding trains specifically, but he stated that we try to do things our parents did. Our parents often rode trolleys or interurbans. My mother rode the Atlanta Northern from Smyrna to Atlanta, as did my wife's mother during WW II. [/quote] Then buy a studebaker for mental health, lol... Hey, trains CAN be 'fun", I know that when I FIRST MOVED to Atlanta, riding the Marta trains was fun"...same thing when i moved to Oakland. Riding Bart was fun. But what I'm saying is that in practical use, day after day, the enchantment will soon wear off, except for the dedicated rail enthusiast. Which is what, like 1.5% of the population? Why should 100% of the people be forced to over pay for limited use transportation, just to entertain rail nostalgists? Afterall, isn't that what Classic Trains Magazine is intended for? [yeah]
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