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the group has been led by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens and recently released a CD entitled “American Railroad,” which celebrates the stories of those who built the Transcontinental ...

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The last stretch will run past the Lincoln Memorial to the United States Capitol — a fitting end, considering this portion of the route is based on Abe’s 1860s transcontinental railroad.