In today's journal
Two centuries and a year ago, a puffing engine dragged coal and a few hundred brave passengers past a crowd that had never seen anything like it. One boy in that crowd waited half a lifetime to paint what he saw, and the bridge in his picture still hasn't clocked out.
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