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This is the same train Alexander Gardner photographed in the two <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Westward_The_Course_of_Empire_Takes_Its_Way%27_Laying_Track_600_Miles_West_of_St._Louis,_Missouri,_October_19,_1867.jpg" title="File:'Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way' Laying Track 600 Miles West of St. Louis, Missouri, October 19, 1867.jpg">'Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way' Laying Track 600 Miles West of St. Louis, Missouri, October 19, 1867</a> photographs, but with the locomotive and water tank car shifted off. The town site of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Kansas" class="extiw" title="w:Rome, Kansas">Rome</a> is behind the far right of the cars and has been largely abandoned by this time; only a few structures remain.</div>
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Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 -- Photographer</div>
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