<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The steamship clerk of Pig’s Eye, Minnesota, built a railroad empire from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Once the very heart of downtown St. Louis, Union Station has come through hard times to celebrate its 100th birthday, and ,even though the trains don’t pull in here anymore, it’s still an urban draw.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">They are 30 years gone from our main lines, but, all across the country, steam locomotives are pulling trainloads of passengers into the past. A lifelong student of the great age of American railroad reveals some of the most impressive.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It was once as big as the fear of flying, and it helped show the way to psychotherapy and the modern treatment of traumatic stress.</span></p>
