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@#§††=~... RAILS ...~=††§#@
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####§††=~. TRAINS ARE SO CONSTRUCTED THAT THEY .~=††§####
#§†††=.... HAVE TO FOLLOW A SET PATH. THIS PATH IS ....=†††§#
#§†~...... CALLED A "RAILWAY", WHICH IS COMPRISED ......~†§#
##@##††=~. OF TWO METAL RAILS, HENCE ITS NICKNAME. .~=††##@##
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@#§†~~~~.. BECAUSE THE LOW FRICTION BETWEEN THE ..~~~~†§#@
##††=..... WHEELS OF THE TRAIN AND THE RAIL METAL, .....=††##
####§††=~. THERE ARE LIMITS FOR HOW ACUTE A CURVE .~=††§####
@@##§††=~. CAN BE, AND EVEN MORE SO FOR HOW MUCH .~=††§##@@
##§†††=... THE GROUND UNDER THE RAILS CAN BE ...=†††§##
#@##§††=~. SLOPED. THUS A RAILWAY IS OFTEN NOT LED .~=††§##@#
#@##§††=~. ON TOP OF HILLS, RATHER THROUGH THEM IN .~=††§##@#
#@##§††=~. TUNNELS (IF THEY ARE LARGE), OR .~=††§##@#
#@##§††=~. ARTIFICIAL CHASMS. .~=††§##@#
#§§†=~.... ....~=†§§#
#@##§††=~. THERE WILL BE TREES ON THE SIDE OF THE .~=††§##@#
@@##§††=~. RAILS, BUT NOT TOO CLOSE, OR THEY WILL .~=††§##@@
#@##§††=~. BE CUT DOWN BY THE RAILWAY JANITORS. .~=††§##@#
###†=..... THERE WILL BE PLAINS, AND BODIES OF .....=†###
#@##§††=~. WATER. .~=††§##@#
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#@##§††=~. TRAINS GO BY DAY AND BY NIGHT. ALONG .~=††§##@#
###††=~... THE WAY, THERE IS INFORMATION ...~=††###
##@#§††=~. SCATTERED, OFTEN PUT ON TOP OF POLES, .~=††§#@##
#@##§††=~. TO BE INTERPRETED BY THE TRAIN DRIVERS. .~=††§##@#
#§§†=..... DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE RAILWAY HAVE .....=†§§#
@@##§††=~. DIFFERENT SPEED LIMITS. .~=††§##@@
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@##†††==~. SOMETIMES, TRAINS HAVE TO STOP AND WAIT .~==†††##@
####§††=~. FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, FAR AWAY. THIS .~=††§####
#§†=~..... IS SIGNALED BY RED OR GREEN LIGHTS. .....~=†§#
#§§§§††=~. .~=††§§§§#
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##@#§††=~. .~=††§#@##
#@##§††=~. MANY PEOPLE FOLLOW THE RAILS BY FOOT. .~=††§##@#
#@##§††=~. OFTEN THIS PROVES TO BE THE SHORTER .~=††§##@#
##§§†††=~. PATH BETWEEN TWO POINTS. HOWEVER THIS .~=†††§§##
####§††=~. IS FROWNED UPON, AND VERY IMPOLITE .~=††§####
#†=....... TOWARD THE TRAIN DRIVERS! .......=†#
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