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The Salinas Railway Station

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The train was important to Salinas and to agriculture. Steinbeck's characters arrive and leave at the Salinas train station. Molly Morgan arrives at the train depot before taking the bus to the pastures of heaven in East of Eden, Adam's first load of iced lettuce leaves from this station. Carlos Bulosan mentions the Salinas freight yards in America Is In The Heart.
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