An idea from Walden

Everyone agreed the nation needed railroads. Under its rails lay wooden ties called sleepers, and in each one he saw an Irish or Yankee laborer, laid down so that others could ride. “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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