Which old technology do you wish made a comeback?

@SpudMuffin @sunsporter1649 Very impressive locomotives those, but it might be hard to find anyone these days willing actually to clean, prepare, operate and service them for a living!

@ArishMell Skilled machinists are hard to come by nowadays

@sunsporter1649 They are, but they are not whom I had in mind.

I was thinking particularly of the running-shed staff, of whom only a few were skilled fitters, and whose work was physically hard, hazardous, filthy and often at very unsociable times.

Even driving the locomotives was not exactly romantic, though it was skilled work.

@Jenny1234 I know the feeling.

My work sometimes entailed staying away from home, and I found it very frustrating that I could not watch the TV, and worse, there was no radio, in the hotel room!

I don't know if it was incorporated in the TV set, but I had no idea how to operate the thing and there were never any instructions available.

Ah well... I'd buy a newspaper and read that instead.

@lissah Yes they did. Had a huge one in the last state i lived it.

@JackDaniels i remember going with my boyfriend when i was a teenager but we didnt watch the movie usually. Most of the kids in my highschool just used it to go makeout.

@lissah Lol. Same. Got some action in the backseat. 😅😅😅

@sunsporter1649 They are still available.

@DDonde Various entrepeneurs have tried - not with the enormous 1920s types but smaller, more nimble things; and using helium not hydrogen.