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Traveling in Style
In 1870 the first railroad train crossed the American continent. The train’s baggage car carried five ice closets and a printing press; its smoking car contained a game room, wine room, barbershop, and newspaper office, and the remaining sleeping cars, drawing room cars, and dining cars included two library rooms and two organs, says the National Geographic Society’s book, “Railroads: The Great American Adventure.”
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