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An American Motif: The Steam Locomotive in the Collective Imagination

January 13, 2013 By Wyn Wachhorst 2 Comments

  Like the giant reptiles, the great steam locomotives no longer roam the earth.  Those massive hulks of sooty iron, cluttered with snarls of piping and valves, were the consummation of crude mechanical power.  Though technology, like evolution, has since turned from quantitative to more … [Read more...]

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