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Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the american civil war, we view it through the lens of the war, itself. That shapes what were looking at. ...

Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it into forward motion. You collect excuse me you collect the steam. You send it down to a piston. The ...

And hell do it again hear on the steps of the capital in front of the entire nation. We may not see as many people around the excitement is in the air. We will get to steve ruden with what to expect temperaturewise but first we go to tom because it is such a big night. The official ball is tomorrow but there are many balls underay. The big crowd is here this is the maryland state ball here at national harbor. We were at a state bsallall in arlington as folks celebrate innaguration weekend. I Barack Hussein obama solemnly swear. He was officially sworn in today and joe biden tokok the oath of f...