Review: <i>The World the Trains Made: A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada</i>, by James D. Dilts
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Book Review| September 01 2020 Review: The World the Trains Made: A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada, by James D. Dilts James D. DiltsThe World the Trains Made: A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2018, 304 pp., 230 color and 2 b/w illus. $50 (cloth), ISBN 9781611688023 Kurt Schlichting Kurt Schlichting Fairfield University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2020) 79 (3): 338–340. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.338 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kurt Schlichting; Review: The World the Trains Made: A Century of Great Railroad Architecture in the United States and Canada, by James D. Dilts. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2020; 79 (3): 338–340. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.338 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In The World the Trains Made, James D. Dilts offers a visually rich and evocative study of the railroad architecture that has survived the decline, collapse, abandonment, and bankruptcy of the railroads. In the nineteenth century, railroads were the largest and most prosperous businesses in North America, the very symbols of the Industrial Revolution. All along the right-of-way—what historian John Stilgoe calls the “metropolitan corridor” of tracks, stations, and associated buildings, from New York's magnificent Grand Central Terminal to the thousands of one-room stations in rural settings—“the railroad represented modernity.”1 “Civilization literally followed the wave of railroad construction across North America,” Dilts writes in his preface (ix). Even if served by only one local train per day, the typical railroad station included a telegraph office and often a post office. These helped tie rural communities, small cities, and major metropolitan regions into a complex web, with the railroad... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".