The Railway, A Connection Across Time

            The railway system was introduced by an English engineer named Richard Trevithick in 1804.  By proving that he could haul ten tons of iron over about ten miles on railroad track in a steam powered locomotive, he won a bet of several thousand dollars.  This sparked the interest of other engineer and the invention was born.
            The railway system is a steam powered locomotive running on iron tracks that can run long distances and haul tons and tons of materials.  This was mind blowing the people of this time because it made both traveling and transporting raw goods much easier, faster, and cheaper being that it was steam powered.  Because of it's efficiency, it is still used today.  The fact that we still use this invention today, obviously it has changed the world. Today the railway system has been modernized and subways and metros have branched off from this.