Foreword / Alan Trachtenberg -- The Mechanization Of Motive Power -- The Machine Ensemble -- Railroad Space And Railroad Time -- The Space Of Glass Architecture -- Panoramic Travel -- The Compartment. The End Of Conversation While Traveling ; Isolation ; Drama In The Compartment ; The Compartment As A Problem -- The American Railroad. Transportation Before The Railroad ; The Construction Of The Railroad ; The New Type Of Carriage ; River Steamboat And Canal Packet As Models For The American Railroad Car ; Sea Voyage On Rails ; Postscript -- The Pathology Of The Railroad Journey -- Industrial Fatigue -- The Accident. Accident And Crisis -- Railway Accident, Railway Spine And Traumatic Neurosis -- The History Of Shock -- Stimulus Shield : Or, The Industrialized Consciousness -- The Railroad Station : Entrance To The City -- Tracks In The City -- Circulation. Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Translation Of: Geschichte Der Eisenbahnreise. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 198-200.