Really just a teaser here. I'm reading madly about trains in the 19th century and the many way that the advent of train travel changed Americans' lives. The idea is that this new transportation technology can stand for industrialization as well as shifting relationships between people and their physical environment in the 19th century. Today many Americans may regard trains as toys or a diversion, but once they were as transformative as the internet: allowing travel in all seasons, requiring standardized time, contributing to the demise of the buffalo, reducing the operative size of the nation.
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