railroad

     

Jackson was the first president to use this form of transportation while in office

Trivia about railroad

  • The big Gobi event of 1955 was the completion of one of these spanning the desert
  • This form of transport still carries the most freight in the U.S.
  • York is a hub of this type of transportation & has a national museum dedicated to it
  • In 1871 British Columbia joined Canada on the condition it be linked to the eastern provinces by this
  • A gandy dancer works on this all the livelong day
  • Phineas Gage was working on this in 1848 when he survived a 3-foot rod going through his brain, seen here