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...personal opinion,” Amorello said, “what better way to come into a capital city [like Boston] than to have big shiny buildings facing the road instead of railway yards and a chemical company...
...Flanking them are three Bradley fighting vehicles. Mitchell, 34, briefs his men that a passing farmer has told a sentry about 10 men sweeping around for an ambush. On his command, the Americans run north through the choking red dust and throw themselves on the ground against a nearby railway track. "Jesus, we can't see s___!" says Carnahan. The squads hold their positions as the bradleys scan the area with thermal imagers. Nothing. Carnahan then gets a call from brigade. "We have a new mission," he announces to his men. "We're pulling out and moving back east...
...debt-ridden Turnpike Authority announced the parcel’s auction in January after years of back-and-forth discussions on the potential for the land, which is split down the middle by turnpike roads and crisscrossed by CSX railway tracks. In 1997, the Turnpike sold a less-encumbered 47-acre piece of adjacent property to the University for $151 million...
...officials are reportedly concerned that the sale of the larger slice of land to Harvard could complicate access to or even spell the eventual end of the railway yard, which is the largest facility for rail freight in the Boston area and a crucial piece in the MBTA’s development of the commuter rail...
Back in Queens, in the enclosed gravel courtyard outside P.S. 1, there is a large work by Yoko Ono. Yes, that Yoko Ono. Freight Train, 1999, consists of an actual railway freight car on a short length of track, pocked all over with what look like bullet holes. Hidden speakers emit strange ululations, clicks and keenings, sounds that approach the haunted music of Noh plays but fall short of melody as Westerners customarily think...