Thank you for taking the time!

Glad you liked the piece. They people came, the prairies boomed for a few decades, and now it’s a long slow decline and one day, they’re will be almost no one (rural anyway).

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It tugs at our heartstrings…

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Yes, we enjoyed our visit!

In simple terms the young people move away and the old ones pass on. And soon there’s no one.

There’s many factors in play here. Farms sure have gotten huge though. Is it adaptation or big business steamrolling the small guys? Hard to say…

And each year the rural population declines a bit more.

Looks like Sylvania is still hanging on and has a population of maybe fifty. No metropolis, but there’s signs of life.

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All but the mainlines and few select branches are what’s left. Such a dramatic change from not all that long ago.

It is!

Someone’s still farming that field.

So many rail line were abandoned, but it’s the economics of it all I guess. Sad though. This line was early on the chopping block, with little left today to show it was ever here.

So many rail lines across the prairies have been removed. It’s amazing how many.

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Awesome!

So much to see out that way. We could have happily roamed the area endlessly had we the time.