Railways

A railway is a means of transport.

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Blood, Iron and Gold
British Rail
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
The Subterranean Railway
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Christmas Train

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Colson Whitehead
I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families. In flowers, such a concoction pleases the eye. When that amalgamation takes its shape in flesh and blood, some take great offence. In this room we recognize it for what it is - a new beauty come into the world, and it is in bloom all around us. ...more
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Hilaire Belloc
You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons of the hunters and the wandering singers, and from our boyhood nothing ever gave us greater pleasure than to stand under lonely skies in forest clearings, or to find a beach looking westward at evening over unfrequented seas. But the great mass of men love companionship so much that nothing seems of any worth compared with it. Human communion is their meat and drink, and so they use th ...more
Hilaire Belloc, On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

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