on the wrong side of the tracks." The etymology is not entirely clear. The common explanation is that in the old days of steam locomotives, the wind would tend to blow the soot to one side of the tracks. The sootier side would then become the poorer / industrialized neighborhood.
Since y'all have a good record of giving helpful answers: Can someone hit me with some knowledge as to how it is that train tracks came to be such a quintessential dividing line between class/income levels? "The wrong side of the tracks" is a thing even here in Skogås.
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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my guess would be that when you first run a train line into a town, you run it to the outer edge so you don’t have to knock down any houses. So everything that appears on the other side is newer.
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That definitely seems like a plausible explanation. It would explain a few things about how the town is laid out, too.
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