One of the stories to be told is that it was a great uniting factor, at least for our province at the time. This dates before we were in Confederation and before we had things like the CBC, that cross-culture of ideas. We had a train that carried whoever wanted to go to St. John's from anywhere on the island, and the camaraderie that was created and the connections created because of that is the story.... So I like your analogy of the alien who finds a caboose and a locomotive and yet not much in between.
Let me relate it now to government funding. How short are we when it comes to funding the restoration of these cars?