CSPAN3 Railroads And Rail Cars October 2, 2017
We are at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in dearborn, michigan. These were the key technologies of the 20th century. The railroad was the Key Technology of the 19th century. Says not an exaggeration to a steam engineer was thought of as an astronaut is today. It is fitting we should have a collection of railroad vehicles. We have locomotives that tell the story of railroading in the United States from the early days of the 1830s through the electric locomotives in the 1920s. Behind me is our earliest example. This is a replica of an 1831 locomotive. Replica was built in 1892. It ...