sd80mac wrote:Why is Camera more concern about that than the on-going violence in town lately? - couple murders, missing persons, rape (I think they had big news about that) and recently 50 some kids were fighting in town)... Geneva is really ugly town. only thing is beauty is the park along the lake. The track actually divided the beauty and the ugly...
As a longtime resident of Geneva, I'd like to point out that the issues with violence we see are no different than any other city of our size, and that it is far from an "ugly town". Come have dinner on Linden St sometime this summer where it is closed off to traffic on the weekends. Come down to "Cruisin night" when downtown turns into one big party with hundreds of hot rods and show cars. Come down to Lake City Hobby to shop for some model trains. If I believed only what I see on TV or read in the news, I'd never travel to places like NY City, Chicago, or even Rochester - because all you see on the news is the bad stuff that happens everywhere.
The lakefront is beautiful and is our most prized asset, used for numerous festivals, athletic events, performances, etc every year, and the current layout of the FGLK yard and routes 5&20 is due to the slow retreat of the road and rails away from the lakeshore over the past several decades. I cannot see for a second how this will every get any traction simply due to the dollars involved, as this isn't just about Finger Lakes Railway - what about Suburban Propane's property? What about the other businesses on North Street that back right up to the tracks? Politicians in our city often get this pie in the sky idea going again and it gets shot down consistently because we like the lake front just as it is, without condos and a bunch of chain restaurants pilfering from what has been created in the city already. I have a feeling some of this misguided enthusiasm for moving the yard is coming from the recent successful push to keep FGLK from hauling trash trains to Seneca Meadows. Did I mention that I had to maneuver around 3 huge, slow-moving, awful-smelling tractor trailers this morning on my way to work?
On another note not tied to my soapbox, I was at a prototype modelers meet last weekend and someone asked me whether FGLK was still using the transfer cabooses with their radio control units? I haven't seen them move in a long time off the closest track to 5&20, is the technology such that they aren't needed for those operations anymore?