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abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It all began when John Train had a great idea for a new method of transport…

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• remotedev@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I learned railway history from Hell on Wheels

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a pretty good source to understand the zeitgeist of the whole railroad boom. It’s fictionalized but pretty truthy.

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• StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After we hear about Carthage, sure thing

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not much to hear about Carthage 😔 (because of rome)

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• vorpuni@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where’s your newsletter

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