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Picture of a mother and her twin daughters traveling by train along the Hudson River in New York
November 13, 2021

Train Commute

The March 1996 issue took readers on a journey along the Hudson River in New York. In this picture, a mother takes her twin daughters to her workplace in New York City, more than an hour train commute from their home in Garrison, New York.
Photograph by Melissa Farlow, Nat Geo Image Collection

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