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    One Web site, RailPictures.net, features more than 271,000 photographs of trains, with updates of the most popular from the last year, the last week, the last 24 hours. "Eastbound KJRY train of empty coal hoppers leaves Iowa for Illinois" reads a typical caption, accompanied by date (April 24, 2009) and location (Keokuk, Iowa). Full Article at The New York Times
    Eastbound KJRY train of empty coal hoppers leaves Iowa for Illinois
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
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Awesome Train Set, Mr. Buffett
  1. Say, you wouldn’t happen to have a picture of that train I used to work on, would you?
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  2. Thundering, but unlike thunder. It lasts a lot longer. It is machinery at work at its best.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  3. The sound of a train as it works up the grade is just awesome.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  4. Every train is ‘chugging’ into town ... Steam locomotives are long, long, long gone.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  5. I find that weird ... I am just a railroad fan.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  6. more of a British thing ... Americans are more apt to photograph.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago

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