(erielack) Rust Belt

[Dale and Ev SBC <gobills_@_ncweb.com>]

At 05:33 07-08-2008, you wrote:
>The reasons for Cleveland's population decline isn't solely economic (I
>drive there to work because I can't make as much $ here) or climate
>(most people are moving to the suburbs, we add between 5 and 12 streets
>a year for all the home building).
>
>Cleveland, Canton, Youngstown population decline, a lot of the same
>reasons, and I won't go into them here. The main one became apparent
>when I tried to set up a rail tour of Cleveland and a lot of guys
>weren't comfortable being there. And I don't see that ever changing.
>Meanwhile you have a major Ohio city like Columbus seeing decent
>population growth.

Mike,

As I've said before, I hope you can do this as part of the EL 
conference in Sept.  Or send the details to me privately and I'll 
toodle around town on my own.

We've been through some of the worse parts of Chicago (Rock Island 
Rocket House, EL/CR 51st Street) and Cleveland and not had 
problems.  If you're a railroader, it's part of the territory.  You 
just gotta keep your whits about you.


Dale 



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