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| | iranian.com: Sara Nobari, Night train to Tabriz |
 | | So I knew as the train whistled past in the dark something of what I was missing, but the darkness engulfed everything from the flat snow to the sharpest mountain peaks. |
 | | We were an express train, which meant that out of the four hundred or so miles to Tabriz, we would stop only three times, at major cities (major for a mountain route, population on average 100,000 – 300,000) along the way: Karaj, Ghazvin, and Zanjan. |
 | | Throughout the course of the night, as we began to climb the mountains, the window banged open and shut as we sped around bends in the track, first letting in blasts of icy winter air, then blocking them until the cabin became suffused once more. |
| www.iranian.com /Travelers/2005/November/Tabriz/index.html (2358 words) |
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