Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World--From the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

Chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of railway technology that continues to change the world, examining the mechanics of rails and their engines and their role in helping societies evolve while analyzing America's culture of ambivalence to mass transit as reflected by the example case of the perpetually stalled line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Read by Grover Gardner. Simultaneous.