Rails for trains and trolleys had Charleston on a roll beginning in the 1830's, and changed the area forever with surprises and enterprises that still shape the city today. Tales of Charleston rails in varying scales that had the city on a centuries-old roll. The longest section of passenger rail line in the world once began in Charleston, and since those early locomotives, the city has chugged its way into the future along tracks that brought fortune and opened up the city and the South Carolina coast to a new era in transportation infatuation.