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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 4, 2004 11:23 AM
Im in the dog house with my honey so just as much be in the dog house
with Trains.Rail classics carried a article on the rails of Vietnam which was
a drasc reminder when read the rails of Iraq.we are so blessed by the nations
we live in as we have Freedom's we take for granted.

May God bless America and take care
of her people as her President.

David Brown
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Sunday, July 4, 2004 11:28 AM
I think that mergers in the North American railroad environment has reduced the amount of topical diversity available to Trains. How many times do you want a big feature on Union Pacific, or any of the major railroads? It gets to the point where every issue of Trains looks just like the last one or the one before. True, the major systems run thousands of miles and cover a variety of territories and operations, but the foreign railroads are a whole new field of topic for Trains! Besides, the name of the magazine isn't North American Trains!

[2c],
-Mark
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Posted by Isambard on Monday, July 5, 2004 11:47 AM
Reading some of the rants against foreign (non U.S./American) or non U.S./Canadian rail content, I believe there may be room for someone to come up with a spam killer which would delete or stop such offending contents before being seen by sensitive viewers accessing this forum. With respect to the magazine, I suggest the "Trains" folks consider enclosing copies of issues containing such offending contents in a brown paper wrapper, with the warning "Contains explicit material, non American content, reader discretion is advised"

Isambard

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