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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rresor: [QB] One more book I would recommend is "Train Time" by John Stilgoe. He is a professor at Harvard's School of Design. In the 1980s he wrote a book called "Metropolitan Corridor", which analyzed the impact of railroads on American settlement patterns in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He's brilliant and quirky, and a wonderful writer, and he believes in railroads. The book is well worth a read, among other things for its discussion of the Railway Express Agency of the 1930s, the extent of its coverage and how people in any small town could order things (like refrigerators) from catalogues and pick them up at the railroad station. He makes an interesting case for the return of such a distribution system. It's a good read, not polemical at all, more hopeful...and poetic. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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