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So what I'm going to
do is I'm going to play

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you the entry video into it.

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All of the videos actually
have closed captioning,

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but this one won't
for one good reason,

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which is almost none
of it is in English.

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You're going to see
the famous meeting

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of the East and West
meeting to shake

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hands photo by AJ Russell.

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And what I want you to hear is
all of the languages of those

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who are either displaced
by or who worked on

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or continue to work
on the railroad.

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And now-- oh, I see.

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OK, this is going to be awkward.

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[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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[MANY PEOPLE SPEAKING NON
 ENGLISH LANGUAGES]

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This is the sound of a train.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING CONTINUES]

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This is the sound of a train.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING]

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We do not ride on the railroad,
the railroad rides on us.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING]

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OK, and let me see if I can
get us to the poem, itself.