Still, I am prepared for this voyage, and for anything else you may care to mention. Not that I am not afraid, but there is v...ery little time left. You have probably made travel arrangements, and know the feeling. Suddenly, one morning, the little train arrives in the station, but oh, so big It is! Much bigger and faster than anyone told you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order,... Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomo...tives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So the 20th Century--so whizzed the Limited--roared by and left... three men, still hungry on the tracks, ploddingly watching the tail lights wizen and converge, slip- ping gimleted and neatly out of sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under a world of whistles, wires and steam Caboose-like they go ruminating through... Ohio, Indiana--blind baggage-- To Cheyenne tagging . . . Maybe Kalamazoo. See VagagondsLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John, Jake or Charley, hopping the slow freight --Memphis to Tallahassee--riding the rods,... Blind fists of nothing, humpty-dumpty clods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no other railroad station in the world manages so mysteriously to cloak with compassion the anguish of departure and the dubio...us ecstasies of return and arrival. Any waiting room in the world is filled with all this, and I have sat in many of them and accepted it, and I know from deliberate acquaintance that the whole human experience is more bearable at the Gare de Lyon in Paris than anywhere else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »