CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 2 HISTORY Trains were first created to carry products Ancient Greeks and Egyptians used horses or bulls to pull simple train cars Steam engines first powered trains in England in the early 1800s George Stephenson’s 1829 steam powered Rocket had a top speed of 28 mph 45 kph 6
Soon train tracks were laid all across Europe In the United States tracks connected the eastern and western coasts in 1869 Before long train travel was common for passengers and goods The faster the train the more popular and successful it became On May 10 1869 Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad workers celebrated the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit Utah 77
CHAPTER 3 ENGINEERS 8
An engineer sits in a train’s cab and runs the locomotive Modern computers help but an engineer is still in charge of getting the train from one location to another safely and on time 9
