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The Art of the Railroad

When the transcontinental railroad united the nation in 1869, it was the age’s greatest engineering achievement. Technologic marvels of steel and wood, railroads filled the space around them with iron, heat, steam, exhaust, noise and smells. Yet they were and remain romantic. The art displayed here reveals that enticing passion even as it presents the railroad’s reality.

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