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'These steam-train journeys,' noted the poet Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857) in 1850, 'tirelessly shake up the world, which actually only now consists of railway stations, like a kaleidoscope, in which the passing landscape continually takes on new shapes.'

I'm currently reading The Pursuit of Power by Richard J. Evans, and in describing the effects of the Industrial Revolution it provides a quote (above) evoking the way in which somebody's conception of distance / the world writ large would have been totally upended once train transport became a common thing. Wondering if anyone knows of any novels/poems/non-fiction/primary sources that explore this kind of disorientation / amazement more thoroughly re: trains.