Who started to make trains?

Question

Who started to make trains?

Answer 1

The british is true

the other person was correct congrad's other person

Answer 2

The British

Answer 3

Thomas Newcomen invented the first steam engine in 1712.  He was a British citizen.

Answer 4

The first steam 'engine' was created by Heron of Alexandria more than 2,500 years ago.

Horse drawn trains predated any steam engines on wheels and were in use more than 200 years ago in the US.

The mines of Britain created the need for the first true trains as we know them, and from thence they came.

Answer 5

For history buffs. The idea of a "train" was originally thought of during the Ancient Roman times.  Pulling multiple wagons with teams of oxen or horses.

The ruts formed by years of travel by wagons and carts established uniform widths for the wheels on those wagons and carts.

Much later the invention of the steam engine created  "motorized" vehicles. These vehicles ran on the same rutted roads as the Roman carts and wagons. Later wooden then iron rails were laid down and wooden or iron wheels were used. The basis of the modern train was established.

Just how did the current standard gage of the rails come to be? The width of an oxen's south end and their treading hoves established the width of the ruts. Thus the width of the current standard gage rail road tracks.

Bet you will never look at an oxen's south end with the same appreciation again.