American traditional usage is 'railroad'. We aren't really being railroaded into saying 'train station'. It's just what comes naturally to any English-speaking five-year-old. We may have invented the railway and trains but the technology reached its real splendour in big countries like Russia and America, freight trains two or three miles long with two or three massive locos, sad distant whistles over the prairies, Whoooo-whoooo, those trains can take ten minutes to go past, gdank gdank, gdank gdank, gdank gdank, stately in their blank functional dignity, serious like Americans...
A fragment from memory of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl:
.... Who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing across America through grandfather night....
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Mon 15 Mar 10 at 15:30
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