| The history of the species as described by | | | | Transportation museums in the New England |
| Evolutionists discuss the theory of | | | | States including the Trolley Museum in Maine; |
| hunter-gatherer tribes roaming around, having | | | | The Land Cole Transportation Museum in Bangor |
| seasonal patterns knowing where to find the | | | | Maine; .Danbury Railway Museum; ;and The |
| food and transporting themselves by walking. | | | | Golden Age of Trucking Museum; will certainly |
| Later agriculture based became prevalent as | | | | conclude that, we have come a long way. As a |
| the most recent activity. And we know from | | | | matter of fact after visiting nearly every |
| written history of the last 10,000 years that | | | | truck, aviation, railroad, trolley, ship |
| mankind transported them selves for water, | | | | museum in the country, one would have to say |
| food, battle and later trade on the backs of | | | | that we have put a huge emphasis on |
| animals, in the hulls of boats and on people | | | | transportation in this country, from day one. |
| powered apparatuses.The first pilgrims came | | | | It is a good thing we did too, because the |
| to Plymouth Rock to set up that first colony | | | | efficiencies in the flow of transportation |
| by way of boat, as did Columbus to the West | | | | have helped our Nation become an economic |
| Indies before in 1492. Leif Erickson is said | | | | powerhouse. We must continually work to |
| to have come over 1000 years earlier. As the | | | | upgrade our country's transportations systems |
| colonies grew they built up the area, by | | | | and use our innovative spirit to propel the |
| building trails and roads. Later on we built | | | | technologies available to make it even more |
| inter coastal boat transportation, then | | | | efficient. Part of the reason we are so |
| trains, trolleys, barges, submarines, cars, | | | | successful today, is because we were able to |
| trucks, buses, blimps, aircraft, helicopters, | | | | transport products to market, people to |
| etc.Today transportation impacts every single | | | | school or work and the things we needed to |
| part of our daily life and it is the Flow of | | | | build or civilization. This is how our |
| Transportation, which is the one of the most | | | | transportation system brought itself and us |
| important flows to insure quality of life and | | | | to the modern era. Think about it.Lance |
| higher standards of living. If you ever have | | | | Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. |
| the opportunity to visit some of the | | | | |