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Re: My opinion on Train Marketing
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 22 Dec 2002 02:42:37 GMT
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I think Ahui is totally right here. Kids today just do not take interest in
anything that doesn't involve a digital gun of some sort or another. The
kids in my school, excluding my friends of course, like rap, video games,
sex, drugs, and the like. Not to mention the stigma surrounding Lego's as
just being a kid's toy (so many kids tell me "you STILL play with Legos?!").
Of course, we here know better than that, but getting that message to these
kids is next to impossible. And as for trains not being popular, that is,
IMO, the result of Amtrak and diesels. Gone are the majestic pounding
drivers of a Hudson or K-4 and the flashy paint schemes of the Crescent,
Texas Special, 20th Century Limited, etc... Replaced by dull silver coaches
(they're not even shiny) and Geeps. The romance, the allure, of rail
travel, is dead. The airlines and the personal automobile killed it.
America is always in a rush. We don't want to enjoy the journey, we just
want to get there.
Thank god I know of the old ways.
The next generation has so little that's good to idolize and attach to.
Heaven help this country in the coming century.
-Stefan--"Just had to get that all out"-G.
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| (...) Stefan, I agree with everything you've said above and couldn't have put it better myself. There was a time when America was a better place to live in...not now -Harvey (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: My opinion on Train Marketing
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| besides agreeing with a lot said here i wonder how many ironclad knights have been around your neighbourhood lateley or when the last dinosaur galloped through your garden and yet these are popular themes today. i guess thomas is more importand than (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Perhaps Trains (in general) are not of this generation. I remember that I loved to see trains running while I was a little kid. I also loved to go to the aracde and spent a whole dollar on acrade machines. But then the "dark ages" came... No (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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