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Title: The biggest little European Railroad in Canada, will be closing its doors
Post by: romiin on August 10, 2021, 04:42:13 PM

 The owners are getting older. They said with all the covid restrictions, they had a hard time to keep it open. 4000 sqft building, I'm sure the rent was pretty steep to pay every month.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKHzY3xrhc
Maybe the young people are not so interested in the trains, probably trains are something us older folks relate too. Too bad. Loco


 

Title: Re: The biggest little European Railroad in Canada, will be closing its doors
Post by: pjdog350 on August 10, 2021, 06:40:39 PM

That’s great. Nice thing about Europe is they still use trains.

Title: Re: The biggest little European Railroad in Canada, will be closing its doors
Post by: romiin on August 10, 2021, 08:14:18 PM

  It does seem like train technology is always improving over seas. North America seem to replace trains with millions of semi trucks.   

Title: Re: The biggest little European Railroad in Canada, will be closing its doors
Post by: starfire700 on August 11, 2021, 11:16:44 AM

Unfortunately in this country the RR's were squeezing their customers to keep profits up. Then in the 1950's the interstate highway system took away a huge chunk of both passengers and freight.