Trains: Two Centuries of Innovation

February. 23,2017

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Train Railroad Archive Footage

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Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no other invention before. What visionaries imagined the development of the railroad? How did we get from the first chugging locomotives to the smooth giants of speed we see today? How does France's extensive rail network keep running smoothly, 24/7?

Clive Lamming as Self - Railway historian

Philippe Mirville as Self - President of the French national railway museum

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