How Often Does the Train Go By?

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People who live near train tracks get used to the noise. The sound fades away and disappears, buried in your subconscious. Why do commune trains like chicago's metra have to rent track time from the railroad lines? Am track came on the scene in 19 71. And ye am basically as a tenant or a guest on the freight railroad.

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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