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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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#¶#$††~:.. BECAUSE THE LOW FRICTION BETWEEN THE ..:~††$#¶#
¶#$††~:... WHEELS OF THE TRAIN AND THE RAIL METAL, ...:~††$#¶
#$††~:.... THERE ARE LIMITS FOR HOW ACUTE A CURVE ....:~††$#
$††~:..... CAN BE, AND EVEN MORE SO FOR HOW MUCH .....:~††$
#$††~:.... THE GROUND UNDER THE RAILS CAN BE ....:~††$#
¶#$††~:... SLOPED. THUS A RAILWAY IS OFTEN NOT LED ...:~††$#¶
#¶#$††~:.. ON TOP OF HILLS, RATHER THROUGH THEM IN ..:~††$#¶#
##¶#$††~:. TUNNELS (IF THEY ARE LARGE), OR .:~††$#¶##
#¶#$††~:.. ARTIFICIAL CHASMS. ..:~††$#¶#
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#$††~:.... THERE WILL BE TREES ON THE SIDE OF THE ....:~††$#
$††~:..... RAILS, BUT NOT TOO CLOSE, OR THEY WILL .....:~††$
#$††~:.... BE CUT DOWN BY THE RAILWAY JANITORS. ....:~††$#
¶#$††~:... THERE WILL BE PLAINS, AND BODIES OF ...:~††$#¶
#¶#$††~:.. WATER. ..:~††$#¶#
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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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