Railway

A railroad is a form of fixed guideway transportation. Vehicles with flanged wheels ride on steel rails, with often one or more power sources (locomotives) pulling/pushing unpowered vehicles (passenger or freight cars). Railroads are a very efficient and relatively enviromentaly friendly form of land transportation. The first common-carrier, or open to the public for a profit, railroad in the United States was the Baltimore and Ohio, founded in 1827. Railroads, like all big business, have a long history of doing bad things for profit, but the tracks and trains themselves are really neat.