Shitty old town starter pack

The pile of gravel got me

Your picture is actually of active, well-used railroad tracks. Old unused tracks are rusty and weed-grown. If the rails are shiny it means that trains pass regularly and knock the rust off. If there's no weeds it's because the railroad actively sends out crews to maintain the tracks.

Used to have a really nice commuter rail that connected to the city, now there's a six-lane highway that clogs up twice a day.

love driving thru these and seeing the old signs. hate the fuckin 25mph speed traps

It's the 1970s car friendly town - so car friendly noone wants to go there anymore, because there is nothing than car infrastructure and car pollution. It doesn't have to be like this, take back your towns folks!

There do be the random pile of gravel.

Am I missing something? Aren’t most buildings bricks? Or is that just because I live in London?

I feel like living in such a town would be very depressing.

Old unused train tracks are one of my favourite things on vacation. It really is a journey into the past. So peaceful.

I occasionally take the bus from NYC to a town in the Finger Lakes, and this is so true. I have been through so many towns that check off every one of these boxes.

Don't forget the Pepsi machine doesn't actually work half the time if ever.

Fellow midwesterner can confirm

Only in America

I grew up in small town. Very. Like, a few hundred people. One school. This meme is so accurate but railway picture is wrong! Too clean. XD

Did you just shit on pretty much the whole UK?

I genuinely am interested. I assume this is for the US. Did houses get bulit with bricks in older days and why did they move away from it?

I live in europe an have only seen brick and cement Houses here

Not every building is brick. Sometimes they have wooden ones. Either way, they're old as shit.

In Australia its the same, but only the fancy buildings are brick. Most are asbestos.

My dads town is not rich enough to have a vending machine.

Replace the Pepsi Machine with one that sells Worms and you've nailed my area.

I love Old Style beer.

Hey, the gravel piles are cool!

Baltimore is this but somehow an entire city.

Hellmans on tap? Where do I have to live to have mayonnaise on tap?

Reminds me of HASTILY MADE CLEVELAND TOURISM VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

Coming from Idaho falls, can confirm these are all present.

People are missing an opportunity by not selling the gravel.

Chadbourn, NC is like this. My buddy drove over the train tracks too fast and it messed up his A/C for a while.

Yes! Monsall Head viaduct :)

Rural Iowa here, the only one I can't find within walking distance of me is the bottom middle, and probably because I haven't walked the entire town yet.