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Re: Barbara Boxer P.O.'ed At Metrolink - KRK
Author: Banana Slug Zephye
Date: 09-22-2009 - 20:43
Q Wrote:
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> > If this is a true concern, then the rail
> enthusiast press has been asleep at the wheel.
>
>
> Well Duh !
>
> All the media is asleep at the wheel - has been
> for years. We rarely hear much about most things
> that power mongering politicians and these
> activist vigilantes do.
I don't know what media you use, but I seem to hear about these things quite a bit. And whatever I don't read in the print media is often on the internet.
Its silly to lump magazines like Trains and Railfan & Railroad in with other media. Both published articles on various challenges to steam operations like insurance, inability to get access to Class 1 railroads, lack of customers for tourist/museum operations and problems securing passenger cars for main line excursions. Why would these two magazines specifically avoid discussing environmental issues? The answer is they don't - Trains had an article about the D & S mentioned above.
That is - not until after
> some judge or council jams 'em down our throats;
> or what we used to know and love, is just plain
> gone. But it's way too late by then!
CSX, NS and CN are making the decisions to ban steam from their lines, not judges or councils.
>
> Of course, if we had actually heard about any of
> it, while it was still just a bill in congress, it
> probably wouldn't have passed --- Now we just
> plain can't have that - can we! No sir!
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> > If this is a true concern, then the rail
> enthusiast press has been asleep at the wheel.
>
>
> Well Duh !
>
> All the media is asleep at the wheel - has been
> for years. We rarely hear much about most things
> that power mongering politicians and these
> activist vigilantes do.
I don't know what media you use, but I seem to hear about these things quite a bit. And whatever I don't read in the print media is often on the internet.
Its silly to lump magazines like Trains and Railfan & Railroad in with other media. Both published articles on various challenges to steam operations like insurance, inability to get access to Class 1 railroads, lack of customers for tourist/museum operations and problems securing passenger cars for main line excursions. Why would these two magazines specifically avoid discussing environmental issues? The answer is they don't - Trains had an article about the D & S mentioned above.
That is - not until after
> some judge or council jams 'em down our throats;
> or what we used to know and love, is just plain
> gone. But it's way too late by then!
CSX, NS and CN are making the decisions to ban steam from their lines, not judges or councils.
>
> Of course, if we had actually heard about any of
> it, while it was still just a bill in congress, it
> probably wouldn't have passed --- Now we just
> plain can't have that - can we! No sir!
