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The West The Railroads Made. STATIONERY to adored domestic companions ofNamed an "Outstanding Title" in University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2009 America's Railroad Age was little more than a decade old when Ralph Waldo Emerson uttered these prophetic words: "Railroad iron is a magician's rod in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water." Railroads exercised a remarkable hold on the imagination. The railroad was not merely transportation; it was a technology that promised to