Riding the Rails in the USA
Subtitle: Trains in American Life (Transportation in America)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: May 30, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780195132281
First sentence: "When I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils," wrote American author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, "it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it."