What Happened to the Railroads?

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Theoretically, those corridors are then preserved, so if we find a need for the railroads later, we can put them back together and relay the track. But politically, i'm not sure how well tit could happen, because people get so attached to those trails that they will not want the railroad to come back inIf we ever get to that point. So who knows.

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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