These vehicles are held above the Slough of Despond by a pile of philosophy books in a short story in which they carry Mr. Smooth-it-away on a trip leaving from the City of Destruction.
At the end of the The Great Gatsby, Nick says that his "Middle West" is not "the prairies or the lost Swede towns" but these "thrilling returning" things of his youth. These vehicles are held above the Slough of Despond by a pile of philosophy books in a short story in which they carry Mr. Smooth-it-away on a trip leaving from the City of Destruction. These vehicles are the focus of a company founded by Nathanael, infiltrated by John (*) Galt, and run by Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged. Frank Norris depicted the struggle between Magnus Derrick's wheat ranchers and the companies that use these vehicles in The Octopus. For 10 points, name this kind of vehicle ridden in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad."
At the end of the The Great Gatsby, Nick says that his "Middle West" is not "the prairies or the lost Swede towns" but these "thrilling returning" things of his youth.
trains [or railroads until it is read]