The shots of the base with the train in the foreground really bring home the massive scale of this, which gets diminished in the wider skyline shots. It's really a magnificent feat of engineering, and a pretty damn good feat of design as well. Chicago is getting some real stunners.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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