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Trains carried people and their dreams into town.(Neighbor)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20060823
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Byline: Margery Frisbie

Sometimes, when I wake at night and can't go back to sleep, I lie and listen to the rhythmic rumbling of freight cars rolling through the center of our town. Frequently, I find myself reciting lines from Edna St. Vincent Millay's evocative poem, "Travel," where she writes:

"Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,/

No matter where it's going."

In Arlington Heights, most of the trains are going to Chicago, bearing commuters. Yet trains haven't altogether lost the romance they evoked when Millay wrote those lines. Steam engines with their ...

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