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Rottweiler Dog and Pony Show from Portland, Oregon Since: Dec, 2009
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#1: Oct 31st 2010 at 3:10:50 PM

Does anyone else think trolleys and passenger trains were among the greatest aesthetic accomplishments of industrialization?

Just look at this old timey trolley winding through Victorian architecture in Christchurch, New Zealand. I wish it was the norm for cities to be built around such things rather than around cars.

Then there were passenger trains, which made long-distance travel an elegant and convenient adventure. With sleeping cars and a dining car, you could make a journey up to 15 hours away from home as an overnight trip with dinner at the beginning and breakfast at the end. Try that on the interstate system. There would be no comparison in pleasure and elegance.

Any of you still live places that have beautiful passenger rail systems?

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Shichibukai Permanently Banned from Banland Since: Oct, 2011
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#2: Oct 31st 2010 at 4:08:54 PM

Yes, I love trains and there are still some heritage lines around.

The first class on Virgin trains is also very good... though the standard class smells of toilets, I blame the ventilation.

There is a new steam line which uses the main railways. A newly-constructed Peppercorn A1 pacific.

edited 31st Oct '10 4:12:19 PM by Shichibukai

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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
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#3: Oct 31st 2010 at 5:47:33 PM

Blame Standard Oil, they bought all the trolley companies and shut 'em down, so towns'd buy buses.

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EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#5: Oct 31st 2010 at 7:59:13 PM

I've never ridden on a train, aside from MAX, the Portland Streetcar, and that one line that the Washington Park Zoo has during Christmas when I was a kid.

This must be rectified.

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