History of rail transport Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam to drive the engine by one power stroke. The transmission system employed a large flywheel to even out the action of the piston rod. On 21 February 1804, the world's first steam-powered railway journey took place when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. Trevithick later demonstrated a locomotive operating upon a piece of circular rail track in Bloomsbury, London, the "Catch Me Who Can", but never got beyond the experimental stage with railway locomotives,
If You Ever Leave Me If You Ever Leave Me "If You Ever Leave Me" is a vocal duet between Barbra Streisand and Vince Gill. The song was written by Richard Marx and produced by David Foster and Richard Marx. It first appeared as a single on Streisand's 1999 album, A Love Like Ours. "If You Ever Leave Me" was released as an international CD single that included three additional tracks, two of which were recorded during the A Love Like Ours sessions but were not included on the album. The song appears on Barbra Streisand's Duets album, released in 2002. "If You Ever Leave