The Red Caboose Motel

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The word caboose was lifted from ship talk. A guy in the 19 sixties on a dar bid on 19 cabooses in an auction, and to his shock, learned that he won them. Now they're all but extinct, except for local trains or maybe moving through railyardsor something. But yet, every time i see a train go by without a caboose, it feels like in reading a sentence witho hperiod. It's s just not complete.

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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