i love trains. my grandfather came to canada from scotland in 1926 to work the trains. in my youth (in the late '60's i travelled across canada (toronto to vancouver) 3 times on my own. $50.00 each way. the elegant dining car with linen and cn china. the dome car through endless prairies and the rockies of b.c. sleeping curled up on the coach chairs with fellow hippy travellers you'd just met and would never see again. 
newfoundland has no trains. 20 years ago the federal government paid us off with money to improve our roads and the rail beds were torn up. now we have no train, poor roads and excessively expensive gas.
my children and grandchildren have grown up without trains. so yesterday we visited the train museum. the infamous "newfie bullet" - so named because of it's slow speed on the narrow gauge tracks. 
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