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Fuck Rome and nazi Germany. Lemmie tell yous about railway history.
It all began when John Train had a great idea for a new method of transport..
I learned railway history from Hell on Wheels
Oh, my sibling in sin, I will tell you things about railways you wouldn't believe, like a proto-railway that played a role in the 1745 Battle of Prestonpans, or rope haulage, or how the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales was designed to constantly go downhill because it was opened in the 1830s before steam locos were both powerful enough or widespread enough to be practical.
Sit down, I'm going to tell you about how the inventor of the RORO Train Ferry died in shame.
That’s a pretty good source to understand the zeitgeist of the whole railroad boom. It’s fictionalized but pretty truthy.
Railway history is incredible because it was very much built on personal spats between various millionaires and scam artists. Yerkes is probably my favourite example of both.
After we hear about Carthage, sure thing
Not much to hear about Carthage 😔 (because of rome)
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