The notion that the railroad makes space disappear was a hard concept for me to grasp at first. All I could think in the back of my head was “With faster transportation new places that were further away become more accessible” It took me a few reads to understand what was actually meant by it but I truly agree with and understand what is being said here. I have a long history of long periods of car travel with my parents and unlike a train which only stops at stations our car could have stopped anywhere (We didn’t). I believe that the interstates and expressways of today’s society could make a great comparison to the railroads as Schivelbusch has brought them up. Today’s highways (railroads) have specific exits (stations) where people get on and off, all the time they are on it they are missing different areas that they are rushing by. My parents and I from as early as I could remember would drive down to South Carolina and Florida to visit relatives and go on vacation but the places in between were just connectors to the final destination so they really are like they are destroyed. A huge example of this is route 66 from Chicago, IL to Santa Monica, CA was constructed and went winding through some amazing areas in this nation. But it was a two lane highway and did not hold large amounts of traffic, there for straight expressways and interstates were constructed to move people with more volume and speed. The saddest part is that most of the smaller towns and some of the coolest views in the area are now missed by travelers as they race down the super highways.