Subject: Re: [baidarka] MacGregor
From: cholst@bitstream.net
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 09:59:56 EDT
Quoting Charles Hall <chall@rtpnet.org>:
> You can't imagine how difficult it is for us Americans to think of trains
> as being useful for passenger travel. We've been eating and sleeping
> automobiles and airplanes for a 100 years!
>
A bit of an exaggeration. Passenger trains were quite common till sometime in
the 50s or 60s. That was also the era of the one-car garage. I remember taking
the train home from college once or twice, and that was in the early 60s. The
Rock Island Line cars looked like they were from the early part of the century,
however.
Chuck Holst
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