Lessons To Learn
Author: Eddie Elkins
Date: 08-09-2013 - 22:49
Freericks Wrote:
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> I am still licking my wounds from this same
> conversation a few years back on this same forum.
>
> The older I get the more I think the only new rail
> projects that I will see get done will be in areas
> of mega-population (LA to Santa Monica for
> instance).
>
> Everything else will just generate lots and lots
> of opinions.
Well, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, they can actually pull off the stupendous feat of converting a hiking trail back into a railroad.
Us civilized city-slickers could learn an awful lot from that!
Sheesh! And all this time I naively thought that railfans should instinctively be supportive of projects related to the reopening of rail lines and the restoration of passenger service!
Silly me!