Today's Wall Street Journal site has the following story. It's not really railway-related, but close:

Metro Transit, the Twin Cities' transportation authority, is closing down its dark, dingy, 94-year-old bus garage in East St. Paul. Some workers are nostalgic about the old facility, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports--we kid you not--that "appointments for grief counseling have been set up because of the move."

OK, but where were these bozo grief counselors when our favorite railroads dieselized or the last interurbans shut down?


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> OK, but where were these bozo grief
> counselors when our favorite railroads
> dieselized or the last interurbans shut
> down?

We had not yet been taught to be victims and to require outside assistance to take care of ourselves. We were raised to be strong, self reliant, and to healthily live with considerable denial to live productive lives.

Alternatively, perhaps our skins have thinned due to natural selection?

Dave


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Is this what's left of the old Twin Cities Rapid Transit Facility, once home to many a wooden streetcar?



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> Is this what's left of the old Twin Cities
> Rapid Transit Facility, once home to many a
> wooden streetcar?

Really one one building is left. Most of the complex has been developed commersialy not to mention the swath that I94 cut along the south side. The best book on the subject is the "Electric Railways of Minnesota" Russ Olsen.


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