03-08-2015, 03:43 AM
As I gaze upon a beautiful HO-scale model of a GP40 locomotive I am moved to remember that during the late '60's through the mid '70's real GP40's were keeping the industry alive amid crazy government regulation. The ICC went bye-bye in 1995. By then the rail industry was in much better shape than it was in, say, 1968 or 1975. Here in Corpus Christi, Texas at the seaport a new rail yard has just been completed and put into service, and it is the beginning of bigger things to come. I mean offence to no person when I observe the rail industry making its way despite government opposition. Roll on.