trains

  • Oct 5, 1550

    The very beginning

    The very beginning
    Roads of rails called Wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550. These primitive railed roads consisted of wooden rails over which horse-drawn wagons or carts moved with greater ease than over dirt roads. Wagonways were the beginnings of modern railroads.
  • Period: Oct 5, 1550 to

    trains

  • The first steam engine

    The Spanish inventor Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patented in 1606 the first steam engine ,but it was not built til 1698 by Thomas Savery
  • metal tracks were built.

    metal tracks were built.
    early railways experimented with continous bearing track and it was tried out on the baltimore and ohio railway.
  • The first diesel locomotive

    Early internal combustion engine-powered locomotives and railmotors used gasoline as their fuel. Soon after Dr. Rudolf Diesel patented his first compression ignition engine[1] in 1892, it was considered for railway propulsion. Progress was slow, however, as several problems had to be overcome.
  • first bullet train

    the first bullet train was in 1972 and made it easier to send passendgers to cities faster.