Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives. – Alan Huffman
Obsidian was caused by volcanoes, an eruption of steam and gas so furious that it melted the earth itself into this hard, shiny object. – Kathi Appelt
The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship. – John Moody
