Walker Evans, 1955
"The familiar insignia of the freight cars are like old ditties beating in the back of our heads," Evans wrote. "...When we can no longer catch sight of the great Chinese red and black double tadpole of the Northern Pacific, or the simple old cross of the Santa Fe, then will a whole world of cherished association have been destroyed. Impiety could go no further."
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