Getting Tied to Railroad Tracks

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Nidly whiplast was up to his favorite pastime, tying women to railroad tracks. Historians think this was a way for us to comprehend our own fears just about the power of industry. Jilly noble wants to know how is it that people who live n yar tracks don't hear the trains any more? Do you think that people get so used to it that it just becomes part of breathing for them?

Trains. Locomotives. Choochoos. Bullet trains. Hyperloops. Subways. How fast can they go? How did they change American history? Why do people love them? What should we do with all that abandoned track? Can you marry a train? What's it like to shovel coal into a steam engine?

Alie went off the rails at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan talking to an official ferroequinologist and curator Matt Anderson -- who confessed to some youthful railroad mischief, delivered a succinct slice of U.S. History, has train movie recommendations and discussed cars vs. trains in the great transportation debate. Also, why transporting isn't always about the trains.

The Henry Ford Museum Railroad Exhibit

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