![]() Trains have played a vital role in Italian history and culture, inspiring art from folk songs to posters, showing the profound impact of train travel. If you love exploring Greenville’s Swamp Rabbit Trail or The Mary Black Rail Trail in Spartanburg, you’ll want to check out the Doodle Trail. ![]() Repurposed train tracks are the new trend in urban hiking trails. In years to come railways would provide a means of transporting perishable food in refrigerated cars, facilitating trade between regions. The Doodle Trail route is an old train track path, located in Pickens County. The new government expanded the national railway network, and by 1875, some 5,600 miles (about 9,012 kilometers) of track connected most of Italy’s major cities. By the time of unification in 1861, over 1400 miles of railway crisscrossed the country. When Vesuvio made its maiden voyage, the Italian peninsula was still divided territory-but the establishment of railways helped to unite the Kingdom of Italy. In years to come, new ferrovie (or “iron ways”) were laid down, connecting the capital city of Naples to Caserta in the north as far south as Salerno. ![]() More than 85,000 passengers rode the line during the following two months, proving that there was public demand. Today’s Doodle celebrates the historic event that ushered a new era in transportation and put Italy on the fast track to unification.ĭeparting at noon, the train completed the four-and-a-half-mile journey to Naples in less than 10 minutes, carrying passengers including King Ferdinand II of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies-or Regno delle Due Sicilie as Naples and Sicily were then known-as well as the French engineer Armando Giuseppe Bayard de la Vingtrie, whom King Ferdinand hired to construct the railway. ![]() On this day in 1839, a steam locomotive called Vesuvio pulled an eight-carriage train from Portici to Naples, inaugurating the first Italian Railroad. ![]()
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