I want to describe how my Bohemian emigrant family may have traveled from southern Bohemia near Milevsko to their embarkation port of Bremen Germany in the Fall of 1853. To travel to Prague along or /on the Vlatva is a realistic assumption. then what options where available to them to travel to Bremen? When did railways FIRST link Prague or any other part of the Bohemian region with the port of Bremen /Bremerhaven? Hamburg? Were there any steamboats on the waterways at this time? Facts solicited. Opinions entertained. Jim in CA