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Ode to America’s Transportation Temples

Posted September 14th, 2012 at 7:44 pm (UTC-4)
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I know, an ode is a lyric poem, something short and sometimes sung.  I’m no poet, I don’t do “short” well, and you don’t want me to sing. But this story is an encomium to majestic train terminals between which America’s passenger trains once traveled each day by the hundreds. I should point out that […]

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