title: Yesterday's Train: A Rail Odyssey Through Mexican History
author: Terry Pindell
description: In a third North American rail journey, the author of <i>Making Tracks </i>and his native Latin collaborator explore not only the rich past of Mexico and the country's beautiful landscape, but also the conflict between their choice of transportation and the Mexican culture itself.
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  Rain fell, gently drizzling, shining on the slicker worn by the stationmaster,
  dripping softly from the eaves of the weatherbeaten, yellow-frame station. The
  train hissed patiently as it waited for the passenger to alight. A weathered
  sign proclaimed that the name of this place was San Juan, New Mexico.
  
  
  It was a young man who stepped from the coach. He carried a single, well-worn
  carpetbag.
  
  
  He was dressed in a dark business suit and wore a celluloid collar that stuck
  up an inch above the collar of his coat. He wore a black derby hat. The young
  man epitomized the very latest in fashion, this year of 1882.
  
  
  He paused for an instant in the misting rain to stare north across the gras