So, in the US, rail companies tended to locate their *junctions* outside the center of town, in industrial areas
…nobody has any recent experience building them. Indeed, they tend to come into existence in the first place largely unplanned!
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The best that can be done here, I think, is to show Americans what narrow streets *actually look like,* this is where the internet is good
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Accounts like @IAmDavidBoxall and
@NathanNWE, among many others, tweet lots of beautiful examples—rather like I try to do with actual trains -
One thing to note--wherever passenger traffic in the USA *was* very busy, different companies consolidated their stations
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This is why so many larger cities and towns have a "Union Station," like the one here in Northampton
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So there are two additional advantages to focusing on New England: many large settlements from the colonial era, and better networking
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this is great but so much easier to read as a blog post
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