Category Archives: railroads

Passenger station in a large city: Study guide to go with picture: About ‘teleautographs,’ I googled that and found this reference in an old children’s book about the exhibits at the Century World’s Fair, published in 1893. One of them is: “…Professor Gray’s telautograph, which merits some description. Holding a pen as in writing, the […]

Streamline Passenger Trains

Old Engine Driver by Robert William Service (1874 – 1958) For five and twenty years I’ve run A famous train; But now my spell of speed is done, No more I’ll strain My sight along the treadless tracks, The gleamy rails: My hand upon the throttle slacks, My vision fails. No more I’ll urge my […]

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGEby Robert Louis Stevenson Faster than fairies, faster than witches,Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;And charging along like troops in a battleAll through the meadows the horses and cattle:All of the sights of the hill and the plainFly as thick as driving rain;And ever again, in the wink of an eye,Painted stations […]