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1938年，剛升上二年級的塔科馬帕克小學的學生，正準備面對開學的第一天
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歷史上著名的塔科馬帕克(Takoma
Park)及塔科馬帕克小學
地方性遺產
您也許認識一兩位在城市工作但並不住在市內的人。就現代的社會而言，這是一件普遍的事情。但在多數人擁有汽車及多數城市設有公車系統前，人們的居處必須離工作地點越近越好。
1800年代晚期，當鐵路從城市延伸到偏遠地區後，所有的一切也隨之改變，因為鐵路讓人們可以住在此處，但卻在另一處工作。人們會在城市內工作，並在一天結束後，搭乘火車回到他們較為安靜，人口密度也較低的郊區家中。另外，郊區的住宅價格也較為低廉。
1883年成立的塔科馬帕克是美國首府華盛頓特區的「鐵路郊區」(railroad
suburb)。現今許多人不搭乘火車，他們會駕駛汽車往返於郊區家中及城市的工作地點間，但仍有一大部分的人會依賴大眾運輸系統通勤。今日，數以千計的塔科馬帕克居民會搭乘電車(鐵路的一種)通勤至華盛頓。所以創建已逾百年的塔科馬帕克，仍被視為一個鐵路郊區。
You probably know someone who works in a city but doesn't live there. Today that's common. But before most people owned cars and most cities had bus systems, people needed to live as close to work as possible.
That all changed in the late 1800s, when railroads were built from cities to outlying areas, allowing people to work in one place and live in another. People would work in the city and, at the end of the day, take the train to their homes in the suburbs, where it was quieter and less crowded. The suburbs also often offered cheaper housing.
Takoma Park, Maryland, began in 1883 as a "railroad suburb" of Washington, D.C., our nation's capital. Nowadays, many people commute from their homes in the suburbs to their jobs in the cities in cars rather than trains, but lots of people still rely on public transportation. Today, thousands of Takoma Park residents commute to Washington using the subway, which is a kind of railroad. So, more than 100 years after its founding, Takoma Park is still considered a railroad suburb.
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