Mon, Feb 8, 2016
Michael reaches the north of New York state in its second city, Buffalo at Lake Erie, which the Erie Canal enabled to develop into a major inland port, pivot of a worldwide grain trade, and Industrial central, soon served by a major Railway system. His first Americna rail tour ends at Niagara Falls, US town, once Industrial, completely shifting to tourism.
Sun, Jan 22, 2017
Michael presents his second American rail route using the Appleton's guide, this time along a great axis of the pioneers follow-up west of the Appalachians, across the great barrier stream Mississippi. For long, the main city westward apart from Chicago was its central port Saint Louis, the Western metropolis supplying cowboy country. It prospered, growing into a real great city, flouting old and new monuments, including the 1874 engineering pioneer bridge named after US architect Eads and iconic arch which has a train inside instead of a lift.