Over 100 years ago, construction began on the Ford River Rouge Complex on 2000 acres in Dearborn, Michigan. The site grew swiftly to include almost every element needed to produce a car: enormous ore docks, blast furnaces, a steel rolling mill, glass furnaces and plate glass rollers, a tire-making plant, a stamping plant and engine-casting facility, a transmission plant, a huge power plant, and, of course, assembly lines. Just under one hundred miles of railroad track and even more in conveyor belts tied these facilities together.
