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My favorites are some of the depressingly tiny trains that American railroads were running in the years just before Amtrak.
Famous, named trains reduced to the bare minimum of service required by government (which wouldn't let them kill the service all together).
Somewhere on the internet there's a blog post of a guy who booked a ticket on one of those ghostly trains in the South in the late 60s and the conductor was flabbergasted that someone was actually paying to ride the train.
