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ST. LOUIS
LIGHT RAIL
Train Coming, Underground |
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A train bound for the
Airport lights up this scene as it approaches 8th & Pine. The heart of modern-day downtown
St. Louis is up above. The subway is a bit under one mile long, and uses
tunnels dating back to the mid-1870s, built in connection with the Eads
Bridge railroad project.
At the time of the last census estimate, metropolitan St. Louis was the
eighteenth largest in the nation with over 2,800,000 people, and
was experiencing modest growth. The situation for the city itself
was dramatically different. The population in the year 2000 was
substantially less than it was a century before, when it was the
country's fourth largest city. |
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