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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.
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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
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early railways experimented with continous bearing track and it was tried out on the baltimore and ohio railway.
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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.
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the first bullet train was in 1972 and made it easier to send passendgers to cities faster.
