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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Clicking "like" that this is in the past.
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Providence, RI
Providence, RI
There's a reason why they were called the "Greatest generation"
I remember "Bowling For Dollars."
Thanks for posting this...that was awesome.
The wars, the depression, the hardships.
And people of today flip out when their Chicken McNuggets aren't cooked right.
LOL. I remember buying my first PC in 1990. It had a 100MB hard drive. CRT color monitor and dot-matrix printer. I figured I was set for life. HA!
In high school back in the late 60s, I remember "nerds" carrying these things around. A slide rule. You don't see these anymore!
We had the 8088... No such thing as windows and three hard drives that when stacked made almost a 6” cube.
Heck, we had 60 megs storage. We’d NEVER use more than that! Set for life!
ROTFLMAO!
In addition to the disappearance of model trains from nearly all "regular" shopping outlets, there's a near-constant sense of loss and "you don't see that anymore" for those who even casually watch real trains. As the Class 1 (7 biggest) Railroads gobble up more and more of the smaller railroads, the color and variety of the locomotives on the rails shrinks every year.
In the 80's I was growing up in West Chicago Illinois at the major crossings of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern (EJ&E) and the Chicago and North Western (CNW) railroads. The striking green and yellow of CNW is long gone, having been absorbed by bland yellow of Union Pacific in the mid 90's. I entered the railroad hobby a few years ago, just in time to be able to glimpse an occasional Elgin Joliet and Eastern Locomotive in their bright orange livery. Brought under the Canadian National (CN) umbrella a decade ago, EJ&E locomotives are steadily being repainted into the red and black livery that all railroads (even those that retain their individual names) controlled by CN are being painted in. Some of my other favorite railroads including the Wisconsin Central and Illinois Central have also been absorbed by CN and are disappearing into CN colors.
Don't see hardly any of these anymore.
Now they and a dozen other lines all look like this:
Not a bad looking scheme, but not as nice as the rainbow of liveries it replaces.
Ask an old timer what railroads they remember and the last time they saw one. They've probably got at least a few names of lines that haven't been seen in decades.
In the 80's I was growing up in West Chicago Illinois at the major crossings of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern (EJ&E) and the Chicago and North Western (CNW) railroads. The striking green and yellow of CNW is long gone, having been absorbed by bland yellow of Union Pacific in the mid 90's. I entered the railroad hobby a few years ago, just in time to be able to glimpse an occasional Elgin Joliet and Eastern Locomotive in their bright orange livery. Brought under the Canadian National (CN) umbrella a decade ago, EJ&E locomotives are steadily being repainted into the red and black livery that all railroads (even those that retain their individual names) controlled by CN are being painted in. Some of my other favorite railroads including the Wisconsin Central and Illinois Central have also been absorbed by CN and are disappearing into CN colors.
Don't see hardly any of these anymore.
Now they and a dozen other lines all look like this:
Not a bad looking scheme, but not as nice as the rainbow of liveries it replaces.
Ask an old timer what railroads they remember and the last time they saw one. They've probably got at least a few names of lines that haven't been seen in decades.
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