Who invented the railroad?

Question

Who invented the railroad?

Answer 1

The railway company. After they invented the train they said, Hey! we're going to need something to put this thing on.

Answer 2

Wow, interesting question but no easy answers because like most other major innovations it came in phases.

The roman roads had grooves in the stone, was that a primitive railroad when one cart was hooked behind another?

Or when early mines started using wooden rails with cup shaped wheels on small carts to move ore from the mine shafts?

There were horse drawn overland railroads long before the advent of steam powered locomotives.

There were a lot of inventions that led to the modern railroad as we have known it for the last hundred and fifty years I.E. steam or electric powered locomotives pulling a string of cars over steel rails.

Answer 3

The year was 1812, the Canadians had just defeated an American attempt to claim land above the 49th parallel, which by rights was the property of the majestrate of Britain. You see that is why you may have heard the term; "crown land". The rail was designed for subways first, which ran by some phenomenon known as "ELECTRICITY". It, (electricity) was discovered by Sir Benjamin Franklin. Once the people of the time realized the full benefits of a subway to get across the city, Two men in their early twenties, both of them did not know each other had a very similar dream to build somthing, somthing like a single rail of steel spanning across the country from one ocean to another. And so it was that Peter Rail laid down a single line of steel from the Pacific all the way to the Atlantic. And it was Gerry Road who followed a similar dream and laid down a single rail of steel all the way from the Atlantic, to the Pacific. It would be out of spite though and so Mr. Road gave the orders to lay the great single line down 4' away , (adjacent) to Mr.Rails line. The following year they agreed to call it "THE RAILROAD" and it would be 78.5 years later that somebody stole a subway in New York and would drive it on the railroad all the way to Seattle. So to answer your question, yes trains are alot of fun for all walks of life and save fossil fuel.

Answer 4

The first public railway was the Lake Lock Railway in Wakefield, England, which ran from Lofthouse pit to Stanley Ferry canal. It was horse drawn and preceded the Steam railway by some years.

Note public, not passenger.

Answer 5

It wasn't just one person, there was a series of inventions (of trains) and the railroads themselves went along with it.

Check out this site for a history of the railroad:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...

or wikipedia is always a good source:

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

Answer 6

Robert Rail and Peter Road  ie. railroad