<p><span class="deck"> “Come and see the boiling cloud,” said a woman on the ground; aloft, the slender <span class="typestyle"> Shenandoah</span> headed straight into the eye of the vicious squall </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The old gray mare was not the ecological marvel, in American cities, that horse lovers like to believe</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> So Richmond proudly described its electric trolleys, the first truly successful system in the world</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Carl Fisher thought Americans should be able to drive across their country, but it took a decade and a world war to finish his road</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How the Philadelphia waterworks became a potent symbol of our lost belief that nature and technology could live together in harmony</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Normandie has been gone since World War II, but many people still remember her as the most beautiful passenger liner ever built. It is the saddest of ironies that she fled her native France to seek safety in New York Harbor.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Magnificently impractical and obsolete almost as soon as they were built, the cable lines briefly dominated urban transportation throughout the country.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A lot of people still remember how great it was to ride in the old Pullmans, how curiously regal to have a simple, well-cooked meal in the dining car. Those memories are perfectly accurate, and that lost pleasure holds a lesson for us that extends beyond mere nostalgia.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Wherever you go in search of history, there’s a good chance that the first thing you reach for will be a road map. And such maps have a history, too.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The urge to move documents as fast as possible has always been a national preoccupation because it has always been a necessity. Faxes and Federal Express are just the latest among many innovations for getting the message across.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">50 years ago, the builders of the Pennsylvania Turnpike completed America’s first superhighway and helped determine the shape of travel to come.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">You’ve probably never heard of them, but these ten people changed your life. Each of them is a big reason why your world today is so different from anyone’s world in 1954.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When Henry Adams sought the medieval world in an automobile, this stuffiest of prophets became the first American to sing of the liberating force later celebrated by Jack Kerouac and the Beach Boys.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">What it was like to be young and on the front lines when Europe mounted an assault on Detroit with small, snarling, irresistible machines that changed the way we drove and thought</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Light rail was an attractive, economical, and environmentally sound technology until the auto companies crushed it. That, at any rate, is what a lot of people believe, and now the nation is spending billions to re-create an imaginary past.</span></p>
