Land transportation was one of the factors that had an enormous change from before to after the Industrial Revolution. With the increased amount of goods produced, the need for land transportation grew immensely. New inventions of this time included railroads, steam locomotive, affordable cars and roads (Murdico 5). The railroads meant that thousands of miles of track could be laid across the land so many locations could be stopped at. Cargo could be carried thousands of miles from its original location. The steam locomotive supplied the power needed for the railway cars to move. Henry ford made cars affordable for most families and invented the assembly line that quickly produced cars (Leuzzi 65). Although roads were already invented the new