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Train Travel Offers Something Extra to Many Travelers
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Train Travel Offers Something Extra to Many Travelers

ByJim Loomis 11/28/201309/06/2014

A lot of people ride trains just to get somewhere. For the rest of us, the experience is quite different and it affects each of us in different ways.  In 1948, Harry Truman won re-election as president in an upset victory over New York governor, Thomas Dewey. Credit is usually given to Truman’s “whistle-stop tour”…

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