Alley at the Museum

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The next time you see a train, feel free to audibly say woo wod for so reasons. If you like hard boiled eggs, but you hate how they make your refrigerator smell like satan's outhouse, get one of those silicon bags that doesn't let anything out. And don't be like, i forgot i even had them, because my refrigerator doesn't smell like farts. It's the best. This is just more of a life tip. Perwolk. Can egg it up? No, dat's a lot of fun.

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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