Trains

What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?

London’s Quarterly Review (1825)

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

Henry David Thoreau

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track – an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher