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ALLIES OF THE EARTH: RAILROADS AND THE SOUL OF PRESERVATION
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Runte, Truman State Univ. Press, 216p, HD .
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What did America lose with the decline of the passenger train? Much more than most Americans think.
The greatest loss is the alliance between technology and the land, according to public historian Alfred Runte.
Once abandoning railroads would have been unthinkable, but we have virtually forgotten the importance of trains for our country and for ourselves.
Now the landscape suffers in our mindless rush to get rid of old technology and blindly embrace the new.
Reviewed in: National Railway Bulletin Vol. 70, Spring 2005, NRHS, page 47.
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