05-13-2009, 02:24 PM
MM said:As I said, modern operations are not of great interest to me, except as they reflect trends on a greater scale.
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Actually today's freight operation is misunderstood..Its not that much different then 40/50 years ago..Today's "team" tracks are now called transloading tracks..The old fashion freight house is now known as a distribution center.Those old
Trailer Trains has become "intermodal" trains...There has always been "unit" trains dating back to the live stock trains of the 1880s...Nothing as really changed..In one way one could say the old cab units revolved into the wide cabs.
50 years ago "All diesels looks alike" was the cry..50 years later the same cry can be heard..However,in all actuality diesels are no more alike then steam locomotives...Just like 50 years ago the majority of the modelers failed to study locomotives.
See how nothing has really change?
Not even that ageless "All diesels looks alike" has changed..
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Actually today's freight operation is misunderstood..Its not that much different then 40/50 years ago..Today's "team" tracks are now called transloading tracks..The old fashion freight house is now known as a distribution center.Those old
Trailer Trains has become "intermodal" trains...There has always been "unit" trains dating back to the live stock trains of the 1880s...Nothing as really changed..In one way one could say the old cab units revolved into the wide cabs.
50 years ago "All diesels looks alike" was the cry..50 years later the same cry can be heard..However,in all actuality diesels are no more alike then steam locomotives...Just like 50 years ago the majority of the modelers failed to study locomotives.
See how nothing has really change?
Not even that ageless "All diesels looks alike" has changed..
Larry
Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!
Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!