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Nothing gets in their way, not river mountain or canyon. ![]() Since the ideal railway is hard, level and straight, they were not laid out sympathetically to the landscape but instead cut and carve their way through in a straight line. The detachment of man from nature and his perception of nature is finalized in the construction of the railways. To the perception of the people who had previously experienced every step of their journeys the world seemed to have shrunk. The railroad has annihilated the space and time, which were characterized by the old transport technology. Where in the olden days people experienced every step of the way with their senses now all they have to do is step on a train and step out onto a different place. Yet, by replacing the age-old use of the horse and carriage and through sheer speed they have made the world smaller and more accessible to the people. ![]() These engines do not succumb to the whims of weather or exhaustion and are reliable enough to keep and daily regulated schedule despite wind or rain. With fast and reliable steam power engines replacing previously expensive and unreliable natural sources of energy such as water or animal man is released from the constraints of nature. ![]() Shrinking and reshaping the world it touches with industrial fingers and alienating the riders to the world around them. Although the means of a quick and reliable mode of transport was and is an important part of industrialization, it denaturalized and desensualized the passengers. The thesis for seems to be that the railroad altered the traveler’s perceptions of space, time, distance, nature and the senses.
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