If Lafayette has to sit through one more wistful trip down memory lane about passenger rail, dripping with images of porters, whistle-stops and relatives waving farewell at the station with their handkerchiefs, we’re all going to lose it.
That imagery was bound to seep into the effort to save a mode of transportation that for a few generations has been past-tense — even as the Save the Hoosier State movement has worked hard to keep the conversation on the wants and needs of the millenial generation and today’s business.
Still, lingering nostalgia isn’t going to save the Hoosier State, a four-day-a-week, Indianapolis-to-Chicago line.
It is just weeks away from the chopping block unless an indifferent Indiana Department of Transportation climbs aboard with $3 million in hand by Oct. 1.
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