Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

— Eve Ensler

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was…

— Esmeralda Santiago

“The trains full of the Strange ran on time.”

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

— Esme Raji Codell

Trains are wonderful… To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

— Agatha Christie

“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at this moment.…

— Noam Chomsky

“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group. Collective memory,…

— Wendy Griswold

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.…

— Aldo Rossi

Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

— Nicholas Carr

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the…

— Charles de Lint

“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.”

— Qntm

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people.…

— Rene Balcer

“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.”

— George will