As I've found in previous research, when trains were a new technology 150 years ago, some journalists and intellectuals worried about the destruction that the railroads would bring to society.

我发现了一个以前完成的调查，上面说当150年前火车作为一种先进科技刚出来的时候，一些记者和知识分子担心铁轨的破坏性会让社会贻害无穷。

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The railroads built America, but its people have largely turned their backs on trains.

铁路造就了美国，但大部分美国人却不坐火车。

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Although the notion of "foliage trains" has been around since tourist railroads replaced working ones, these trains keep their popularity because most roll through undeveloped land.

尽管“观叶列车”的概念从旅游铁路更新一个个作业区之前已经很火，这些列车保留它们受欢迎的程度，是因为最多的隆隆声通过的是未开发的土地。

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He notes that American railroads are already jammed with mile-long freight trains travelling between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

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And thus the spectacle of slow cross-country trains that should have been allowed to die when Amtrak took over from the freight railroads in 1971 but continue to roll at the cost of vast subsidies with little or no public benefit.

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