There's a certain sadness about old buildings, when they go from being simply abandoned to condemned. Cool photos and story.

"Progress." Funny thing, that... hard to believe DART is going to go all the way to McKinney; but I suppose much of it is suburbia, now. I used to live in Garland (well, East Dallas, strictly speaking) and my apartment backed right up on a rail line... the freight trains would come rumbling through, in the middle of the night. Now it's a greenbelt walking/biking area... and the previously colorful neighborhood is pretty gentrified, from what I hear. Haven't been back there since the late 1990's.