Pharaoh Equinologist - I Love It as Much as I Do

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Iam, curator of transportation here at the henry fort. When i found out that pharao echinologist was a word, i lost my marbles. Soi thoug it's very cool to come back here and now get to work with it every day. I have a picture in my office of me as six old boy standing on the pilot of the alleghani. Risi've been into to trains and cars really since boyhood. But ah, you know, i never really considered that peoplea made a living at museums.

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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