What's the Hardest Thing About Your Job?

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"No one will ever beat the magic of a steam locomotive," he says. "They hiss, they roar, they make noises, smells and sounds that you just don't find anywhere else." The best part about the job is seeing people actually enjoying the work that we do, Boin says. He also loves being able to get instant gratification with trains.

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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