https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7 Made with panache en-us 2017-02-23 19:42:28 UTC 2026-03-07 18:42:24 UTC hello@padlet.com tavian_ward64 https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7/wish/155888790 The first circus train was made by W.C. Coup. He partnered with P.T. Barnum to make the circus train. Before circus trains, circuses had to be limited in size. This due to the limited mobility of a circus. They would stop at small towns between large cities in order to make extra money. These performances were not profitable. Upon the invention of circus trains, circuses were mostly held at large cities. They were much more profitable.  This allowed for bigger circuses.

]]> 2017-02-23 19:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7/wish/155888790 tavian_ward64 https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7/wish/155891686 France is home to the fastest underground transport in the world. The Train à Grande Vitesse  (Train of Very High Speed) 
Is the fastest wheeled train. The train is run on electricity, not petroleum. ]]> 2017-02-23 20:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7/wish/155891686 tavian_ward64 https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7/wish/155893298 Before the invention of the train, cows were abundant and cheap. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station. It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers, stampedes and extreme weather, but kept pushing those steers to the train station. By the turn of the century, barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too, but it was the train that birthed him.]]> 2017-02-23 20:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tavian_ward64/xmy94pq0cyp7/wish/155893298