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Train kept a Rollin

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Solidarity forever : IWW | Wikipedia article on railway abandonment | All used up : Utah Phillips | The commonwealth of toil : Joe glazer | We have fed you all for a thousand years : IWW | John Henry | I don’t want your millions mister: The Almanac Singers | The big steel rail : Gordon Lightfoot | Chattanooga choo choo | Paradise : John Prine | We have fed you all for a thousand years | I’ve been working on the railroad | We have fed you all for a thousand years | ballad of a Wobbly: David rovics | Ralph Chaplin Speaks | The MTA | Freight Train : Elizabeth Cotton | Freight train blues : Bob Dylan | The city of New Orleans : Arlo Guthrie |Hobos lullaby : Woody Guthrie | Night trian: James brown

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Lepine elevators, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2020 - by David Burdeny (1968), Canadian

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My Prairie

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Gull Lake, Saskatchewan

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Some well-worn Alberta grain hopper cars sitting at Viking, Alberta, alongside a pile of spikes and a pile of tie plates from a removed section of track, 06/30/2024.

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Elevator Road

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Pride Shipping Containers - 05/2024

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Prairie Skies

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listen i think bullet trains are cool and i get this is a joke post but. Indigenous Nations have expressed many concerns about building more rail networks across north america. famously the building of the first transcontinental railroads in Canada/the US required the near total depopulation of bison herds and the suppression of multiple Indigenous rebellions/resistance movements. if we're serious about ecological restoration, Indigenous land rights, and land back then we can't just act like everyone wants high speed rail and there isn't/won't be any legitimate pushback on it. whose land are we building these high speed railroads across?

There is no reason not to build high speed rail in the US, every major demographic wants it:

The suburban moms weirdly obsessed with Chicago want it

The lesbians in Seattle want it

The gay men in Minneapolis want it

The artists in Philadelphia want it

The polish ecologists want it

The trans women in the bay area want it

The guys who are really into Linux want it

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CN Scenery

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east of Athol, Idaho, 19 MAR'80

BN eastbound freight #88 showed off the wild variety of freight equipment that could be found on the railroads, before the conversion to endless stacks and hoppers.

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A CN freight train crosses the Pembina River Bridge on the Edson Subdivision, 08/04/2016. Photo by Mike Danneman via Railpictures.Net

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A curious lashup of CN 5686, CP 9500, and RCPX 6311 dashes through the snow at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, 01/19/2014. Here, RCPX 6311 was bound for its current home at the Alberta Railway Museum in Edmonton, Alberta. Photo by Paul Sincerny via Railpictures.ca

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A CP potash train passes the ex-Wheat Pool elevator at Duval, Saskatchewan, 09/15/2023. Photo by Matt Watson via Railpictures.ca

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An ex-Manitoba Hydro GE 25-ton switcher and an ex-Canadian Pacific caboose sit on display outside the CP station in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, 06/22/2017. Photo by Colin Arnot via Railpictures.ca

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Three CN SD40 units head a westbound grain train near Wildwood, Alberta, 12/20/1986. Photo by Steve Young via Railpictures.ca