The Glory of the Rails

[fiendishlibrarian]

Among the last published pieces by the brilliant British historian Tony Judt (who died in August) are an essay in two parts in the New York Review of Books on his love of trains and the implications of modern rail travel:

Part 1:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/glory-rails/

Part 2:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/bring-back-rails/