Great American Railroad Journeys - Season 1 Episode 4
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Great American Railroad Journeys – S01E02 – Manhattan: Lower East Side to World Trade Center
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Following the Hudson river, national railroad carrier Amtrack goes from NYC's Penn(sylvania) station over Yonkers, after a Dutch manufacturing magnate, trough wild country inspiring major US literature (Washington Irving) and painting, to Garrison, a strategic focus during the Secession War, seat of US Army officers school West Point (also supplying many railroad engineers) and site of commanding crippled general Benedict Arnold's high treason. Since Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid's legendary Great Train robbery, the Scottish Pinkerton agency founder laid the foundations for the present railroad police, now focusing on anti-terrorism.
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