Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right stretch endless blocks of red-brick rowhouses, each indistinguishable from the next. Old Chevrolets and new Mustangs are parked along the grim treeless streets. Each house has a small grass backyard. The train passes through tracts of brick warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman...
...GOOD YEAR tire plant shines in the afternoon sun as the train slows down for Wilmington, Del. Children play in a puddle of murky water to the side of a windowless concrete warehouse. The decayed corrugated metal walls of the Phoenix Steel Corp sit icily in dank shadows. On through fields of belching smokestacks and huge storage containers...
...building looks somber with its dirtencrusted windows and greasy Venetian blinds. Opposite, a group of tenement houses stand in the glare of DuPont's smoke and flames. The passengers waiting on the platform of Philadelphia's Thirtieth Street Station look like molish members of a dust-filled underworld. The train pulls out into a complex of electric power lines, intricately crossing tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond set among grassy walkways and elaborate shubbery...
...train rolls across a bridge, a huge sign proclaims, "Trenton Makes, the World Takes." A sign on the railroad station advertises "A Little Night Music" at the Majestic Theater in New York. Outside Trenton, on a plot of farmland, a gaunt bird picks at some seeds among some neatly-plowed furrows...
...train enters a tunnel as it crosses under the Hudson River. In a minute it has halted in Penn Station, where crowds of people swirl on the platform, rushing to get a seat. The loudspeaker announces, "The Southern Crescent leaving in ten minutes for points north...New Haven... Providence...Boston." A uniformed porter carries the heavy suitcase of a tall, slender woman who wears sunglasses despite the dimness of the platform...