Madman
Registered
Those of us who lay track on a bed of crushed stone, just like the big guys do, may have noticed that over the years, the track moves ever closer to the sky. We may not think it does when we're reballasting or touching up the ballast in certain areas. But for myself, I have had to adjust some line side structures upward. Now my railway is over twenty years old, and I'll bet that most, if not all of the track is at least an inch or two higher than when I first laid it. In some places as much as six or seven inches of elevation has been gained. In areas where I have made major alterations even more. It's in these latter areas that archeological finds have been made. It's amazing how you can forget what you placed or used in these areas when you uncover them. So it is not suprising then that whole cities are lost to time until someone digs them up. Maybe when I finally croak, and no one takes an interest in my railway, it will be grown over with all sorts of fauna. Then someday in the future a gardener will want to plant a flower and make a discovery that will puzzle the scientific world. They'll make the hypothesis that tiny people once lived on Earth. Some of them have been perfectly preserved in some sort of material that would be foreign to the future generations, we hope. And you can finish this story cause I think I'm thinking too much. I better take a television break.