more at travel.quickfound.net "A young boy travels from Chicago, Illinois to Lamy, New Mexico via passenger train." Public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). en.wikipedia.org The history of rail transport dates back nearly 500 years and includes systems with man or horse power and rails of wood or stone. Modern rail transport systems first appeared in England in the 1820s. These systems, which made use of the steam locomotive, were the first practical forms of mechanized land transport, and they remained the primary form of mechanized land transport for the next 100 years... Railways began reappearing in Europe after the Dark Ages. The earliest kn! own record of a railway in Europe from this period is a stained-glass window in the Minster of Freiburg im Breisgau dating from around 1350... n the late 1760s, the Coalbrookdale Company began to fix plates of cast iron to the upper surface of the wooden rails... The first working model of a steam rail locomotive was designed and constructed by John Fitch in the United States in 1794.[19] The first full scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick ...
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