I dunno, I was born in Dallas and partly raised on my grandparent's small two acre spread in Farmers Branch on old U.S. 77 (oh, excuse me, they now call their burg "The Branch"...?) until Ike's I-35E took it, so altogether, the place just don't look like "home" anymore.
No Frisco/Katy/Cotton Belt crossing each other in Carrollton, no former Dallas Railway & Terminal Co./Texas Electric bridge across the Trinity River, no Santa Fe East Dallas Yard, no Southern Pacific Miller Yard in S. Dallas, no Texas & Pacific #638 2-10-4 on display at Fair Park, , Union Terminal Co. 0-6-0 working the grand lady passenger trains at DUT, and no Hall's Hobby House* on Bryan Street anymore. There's much more, however, space limitations prevent me from adding them.
When you get right down to it: It's time to rename Big D...Bummersville.
Item: I can get excited observing trains on the Ft. Worth & Western, so perhaps not all is lost afterall...?
* Don't know anything about "that hobby shop" but believe me, w/o even knowing a darn thing about it, it'll NEVER be able to hold it's own against Hall's, NO WAY, any day!
Derailed in Deutschland
Joe
