O Scale Trains Lover - Per the quote about trains and stagecoaches you have at the bottom of your posts - I thought you might like this one from the book Travel On Southern Antebellum Railroads, 1828-1860 - by Alvarez
"But the impact of rail travel and its changing influences through speed was best recorded in 1836 by the Virginia lawyer James Davidson:
If my great grand father had have been told that his great grand son, at this day, would dine at one in the evening and go to bed the same evening 120 miles distant, he would have called the Prophet a fool."