How Many Trains and Locomotives Do You Have?

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We have about seven or so locomotives, maybe closer to ten when you count the desel tricsa a few of them operate. And they run the gamut from a a replica of an 18 60 civil war ara passenger coach up to henry ford's private rail car that he used. I feel like an employer can't turn you down if you have a picture of yourself human puppy sitting on their exhibit. Like legally, they can't say no.

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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