Train Control

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Lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that will put in automatic control units in a locomotive cab. Every railroad uses a different system into try and get everything work universally. Lindsey loper wants to know, why were villains and old movies always tying people to railroad tracks? Was this something people were actually afraid of? I imagine you can't even eat a sandwich when you're operating a train. Yet, when you're there tat you've got the one job to do, and tha, tyou'd better be doing right,. only no humis and chip dip too involved.

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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