Photo by Silvia Ros.
Published in the January, 2009 issue of the Biscayne Times newspaper:
There was a time when American life revolved around trains. For more than a century, from before the Civil War until after WWII, nearly every long journey on land began and ended on a railway platform. From the romantic steam engines of the Gilded Age to the stainless-steel streamliners of the mid-Twentieth Century, trains were fixtures in everyday life that captured imaginations and came to represent freedom, opportunity, and progress. Wherever the railroad went, new settlements, new industry, and a new way of life followed.
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(March ‘09 follow-up story here: Still Waiting for the Train).
