If if you had sufficient means, you could buy your own railcar. We've gotten them from a variety of places. The alleghany was built in 19 forty one and we got it in 19 56. Typically they'll run for decades. Not yet, not just 15 years. This was retired just four years older than my current two thousand and seven preus yerthey kind ofl gave up the ghost on coal and decided to move to these electrics.
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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