Streamliners: America's Lost Trains - Biography: Ralph Budd

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inventions inventors innovation cars motors general motors railroads streamliners zephyr trains biography engineers world war ii world war I wwii wwi franklin delano roosevelt fdr antitrust regulation
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History-Social Science
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Streamliners: America's Lost Trains - Biography: Ralph Budd

By the 1920s, trains were being threatened by the auto industry, but the competition only inspired Ralph Budd's scientific innovation of the railroad in the 1930s and beyond. Budd eventually served under FDR as the federal transportation commissioner. Learn more about his life with this biography from American Experience: "Streamliners."
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