Walking in winter wonderlands,
Along a railroad silent for years…
Thinking of times when commerce was alive
And rumbling train cars ran through here.
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Coal trains once
Traced these frozen shores….
The kind of trains environmentalists hate—
Smoke scrubbers came too late!
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Salt cars run occasionally,
Bringing out wealth from underneath…
Barely enough to keep this line going
When that’s gone, abandonment is brief.
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–Jonathan Caswell
(Remembering the line running north from Ithaca, NY, that serviced a coal-fired power plant and a salt mine. This picture was taken in the same area.)
By the Mighty Mumford 