Passenger Steam Locomotive

Famous quotes containing the words passenger, steam and/or locomotive:

    “Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, 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.”
    —Willa Cather (1876–1947)

    “Blotting the sun
    Stinging the eyes.
    The hot seeds steam underground
    still alive.”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “The American people have done much for the locomotive, and the locomotive has done much for them.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)