Everything it seems is becoming so modernized, efficient and cost effective. Why, it’s enough to take your breath away! Passengers can get from Richmond and its glory of the malls, rising towers and fast food courts to downtown Vancouver in approximately twenty-four minutes. The terminus greets us with a fare paid zone heaven at Waterfront Station but some of us dinosaurs still remember the echoing memories of it being the C.P.R. Station and its significance to our history. Slurping a fast food coffee and burger, there we can close our eyes and remember….other times. The following lyrical ditty might provide memories of less efficient cost-effective days of our past.