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Road Trip - Part Two
Last month I followed the railroad across northern Kansas, and the tracks led me through the small towns and rural outposts that inhabit the prairie. This video presents a collection of photographs.

http://thetracksidephotographer.com/2022/05/19/tracks-traces/

Edd Fuller, Editor
The Trackside Photographer
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/22 05:49 by ETFuller.

Very much liked. The western parts of the prairie states are all so similar, with farming and ranching still the economic drivers, but with greater efficiencies come smaller populations and greater shrinkage of the towns. Semis now haul grain not to the local elevator, but to larger facilities sometimes as much as 150 miles away located on a main. Railroads and livestock hasn't been a thing for decades, so semis hauling livestock  from ranch to feedlot to slaughter, again, sometimes hundreds of miles. And so our towns struggle to survive.