What came first,trains or cars?

Question

Like before they created the railroad system in America how was transportation possible?

Answer 1

horse and buggy. trains came first.

Answer 2

Trains came first.  Then, the cars came, and their drivers haven't been able to stay out of the way since....

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Step...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile

Answer 4

As others have said horses and water transport were the primary means of transportation before the railroad in the U.S., which came about in roughly the 1820s with the first common carrier, the Baltimore & Ohio established in February of 1827.

Answer 5

it was not easy  - we used boats when we could, using both rivers and man made canals.  A steam ship was often the best way to get around before the trains.  Other than that, horses and wagons.

Answer 6

Trains were around for years before cars were invented.

They used wood-fired steam engines to produce power.

There were also steam-powered boats on rivers and the

oceans long before cars came around.  

Before that, people rode horses or walked.

Answer 7

The TRAIN.

Karl Benz in Germany has the first patent on an automobile (1886)... The large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles was debuted by Ransom Olds at his Oldsmobile factory in 1902. This assembly line concept was then greatly expanded by Henry Ford in the 1910s.

The HIGHWAY system didn't occur until in the USA until the 1920 / 1950s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_... )

The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's rack locomotive The Salamanca built for the narrow gauge Middleton Railway in 1812 England.

Commercial rail takes off in the USA in the 1840's with the TransContinental RR being completed in 1869.