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
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Subterranean Railway
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Leo Tolstoy
“ The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ...more ”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Harmik Vaishnav
“ The train is world in itself, a diminutive form of the culture of the country and its people. ”
― Harmik Vaishnav, Coffee Beans

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