@fentanylbrownie The 80 year olds at my train club have kept their hair because they're full of childlike whimsy and wonder around trains. Ingest a long ton of aluminum and get down with the 'tism
@atlanticesque The parks aren't really for recreation, cheesy happy family illustrations exist to justify to investors a stormwater catchment area. 9/10 times there are a series of big tanks buried underneath, to prevent flooding during torrential downpours. Plants themselves help absorb runoff
They're usually operating on field railroads for agricultural products like sugar cane or rubber where there's a lot of waste biomass after processing the primary product. Bosnia's coal railroad is an oddity.
Places with steam locomotives in revenue service:
Malaysia*, Eastern India, Romania*, Bosnia, Burma*, Brazil (northern regions), Zimbabwe, Indonesia*.
*Last heard of ~2015
@atlanticesque 'Barbarians at the Gate' is an interesting book that involves Nabisco. Not much of a history of the company but it does provide insight into the excesses of the 80s and the Gordon Gekko generation.