"Railroad iron is a magician's rod in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water."
—#RalphWaldoEmerson, "The Young American" 1844
https://archive.org/details/youngamericanlec00emer/page/6/mode/1up?view=theater&q=%22railroad+iron+is+a+magician%27s+rod%22. quoted in Metropolitan Corridor, 1983, by #JohnRStilgoe https://books.google.com/books/about/Metropolitan_Corridor.html?id=2pWcmPGd6oUC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1#v=onepage&q&f=false c/@henrygrabar @tim_waterman
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