The Greatest Train Movie Ever

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I was aray train spotting. In train spotting, i think the train spotting they were doing was of different sort than actual trains spotting. I like to look out the window. You can't really do that when you're underground, but i love it when you're above ground,. And specially fun there when you're runing through the medium of i 66, to kind of laugh at all the traffic that's stuck. The're going nowhere. Ha, ha, going by t 35 miles an hour. Have a good time. Sucker. So it's a sherden fride thing, a paro echonology, shoden frid sure rolls off the tongue.

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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