Abstract
America was created by the railroads. The opening of the first railroad line in the 1830s sparked a revolution in mode, speed, and convenience that united far-flung parts of the country and enabled America's rise to world power status. The U.S. was enmeshed in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations, and magisterial termini by the end of the nineteenth century. The expansion of trade, industry, and freedom of communication that the railroads created came to be an integral part of the American dream. However, by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile and the airplane became the dominant mode of long-distance travel and this wrote the historical importance of the railroads out of the nation's consciousness. This book tells the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise and fall of railroads.
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