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,
Catch 'Em If You Can Homer and Bart have run up. The title of the episode is a reference to the film "Catch Me If You Can", which is also parodied in the musical montage. Homer is traveling by air in first class and says "Look at me, I'm reading "The Economist". Did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?" and when questioned by his wife, he simply replies "It is!" Four days later, "The Economist" indeed had an article about Indonesia referring to the "crossroads", and mentioned the "Simpsons" episode in short weekly commentaries. The title of the issue was "Indonesia's Gambit". About seven