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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.