In circa 1930, the New York Central Railroad here in the United States embarked upon a massive expansion of its Harmon Shops facility for servicing both steam and electric motive power and commuter equipment some 34 miles north of New York City on the company's Hudson Division. By 1960, steam was gone from Harmon some eight years; by 1970, long-distance rail passenger service was a shell of its former self with national-carrier Amtrak looming on the horizon. Much of what once made Harmon Harmon was gone, torn out because changing demographics made so much of the facility unnecessary. What was put in circa 1930 barely lasted one generation. Here in this video, Musashino Yard--installed completely from scratch in what could be considered the recent past--lasted basically only half a generation. Unless a local historian or into railroad history, to stand there today one would not know the yard ever existed. Both very interesting and very sad at the same time.