The railroad is one of the most common and transcendental land transport routes today. In the course of all history, the railway has existed and started by different methodologies and using different kinds of energies, the first kind of railway worked with coal, while today the most modern ones work electrically.
The term railway comes from the Latin " ferrum ", which means iron, and rail or rail transport, this is a method of transporting people and also to move products governed on a railroad track.
However, it is normally thought that the rails or rails that make up the road or railroad on which the trains circulate are made of iron or steel, however within this classification are included means of transport that use other types of guidance, such as magnetic levitation trains.
The tracks were created starting with two rails placed in parallel that allow the running of a train receiving the name of railway. The material that was implemented for the manufacture of these rails is commonly iron, hence the name of railroad.
The railway was originally developed as a means of transport to carry cargo, this refers to the fact that it worked to move large sums of raw material from one area to another or any other material that in one way or way, due to its large volume and weight, they could not be easily carried. The railway succeeded in fulfilling its objective, which was to increase production, and the distribution and transfer of different types of material could be simplified. Consequently, when this means of transport spread, it also became a solution to transport people as well.
Through the passage of time, the railway lost a lot of hierarchy compared to other transport initiatives such as the appearance of the air medium. This is due to the fact that the latter can cover much longer distances in a short time, even crossing the oceans, something that the railways cannot do since they are only on land.
