Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Meet Enzo Ferrari, whose dream to be a race car driver led to some of the most formidable racing machines ever built; and Nicola Romeo, who took over a fledgling company and turned it into a sports car legend.

Examine rides from Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. to see how in a little over a hundred years, sports car design has evolved from crude to sublime.

In the 1950s and '60s, automakers ordered hand-built prototype fantasy machines in an effort to lure the masses to staged traveling shows. Ride through the past and see how we thought the future would look.

An American success story unfolds with newsreels and Ford family home movies, capturing the man who changed the world with the invention of the gas-driven buggy.

At the birth of railways, trains moved about as fast as a horse; but as speeds increased, so did man's pursuit of even faster trains. Examine the train's evolution from steam to diesel and up through the electrical age.

Examine an American success story that began in 1903 when four men - the Davidsons and William Harley - launched a motorcycle marketing wonder from a Milwaukee shed.