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A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
A short walk through the founding wave's own story: a steam locomotive winning a trial in 1829, a flight lasting twelve seconds in 1903, a canal joining two seas, and a converted tanker that changed how the world ships...
6 stops
Some of the biggest gains in moving people and goods came from cutting straight through the land that stood in the way. This trail follows nine canals and tunnels built to shorten a ships voyage or carry a train under...
9 stops
Roads carried people, armies and trade long before there were engines to ride in. This trail walks from the ancient highways of Persia and Rome, through the disputed question of which one came first, along the long...
8 stops
A ticket that crosses airline boundaries, a report that closed a third of a railway, a flatcar built to carry a truck trailer, a fee for a ship that will not leave port on time. This trail follows fifteen of transport's...
15 stops
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