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The Town the Railroad Built: Rail and the Rural Comprehensive Plan

A long freight train passes a grain elevator and an old brick depot in a small Midwestern town. Rail and the comprehensive plan

October 2026 series: Transportation & the Comprehensive Plan In hundreds of small towns across North America, you can still read the railroad in the street plan. The grain elevator stands beside the tracks. The old depot sits at the end of Main Street, now a museum, an antique shop, or an empty building waiting for […]

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