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    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Mon Nov 2 07:02:24 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    One station (the location escapes me now), is a former Railway Express Agency

    I think that is what those buildings used to be.
    The entrances are raised so box cars could be unloaded at door level.

    When you see the "NOW" and "THEN"...or "BEFORE" and "AFTER" photos, it's hard to believe that trains were there at one time.

    True.
    Where trains once rumbled along have trees growing were the ties had
    been.
    One thing I like to do when watching a old tv show shot on location is
    check Imdb.com, find the episode and they will list locations then check those on the show against Googgle Earth for what it looks like now.
    Sometimes the location looks the same, other times vastly changed or completely replaced.
    Joe
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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Nov 4 05:55:26 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    I think that is what those buildings used to be.
    The entrances are raised so box cars could be unloaded at door level.

    As long as the building is still being used. There are so many abandoned structures around, it's pathetic.

    We have plenty of those in town. Businesses either closed for good or
    moved where the people are now.
    Some buildings were re-purposed. Former department stores, etc are
    offices or restaurants, etc of some sort on the ground floor and some of the upper floors are empty loft apartments.
    About 25 years ago the buildings that had that horrible plain siding put
    on in the '50s to "modernise" the buildings was stripped off and the
    buildings restored as to how they were meant to look.

    Sometimes the location looks the same, other times vastly changed or completely replaced.

    This is their version of rewriting history.

    Not so much rewriting as ignoring.
    Joe
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