Shipping Containers

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There's really no more efficient method of overland travel than the railroad. You can buy a 400 square foot house made out of a shipping container on amazon for 36 thousand dollars. These shipping containers are like, two thousand dollars used if you just want to pinto restet up and pulil elbow grease into some diy living in a metal box. And is that oever weird for you to be working at the henry ford when ford was much more of an automotive proponent rather than perhaps h locomotive? But this question is the question. It's the great question you save for the end of the interview,. Just in case it fix up your report to all and they

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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