Railroads transformed the world. They stitched together cities and continents, turning once-distant destinations into reachable places. While their role in daily transportation has diminished in many ...

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is one of the oldest railways in the United States. It began life as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road (B&J), which was incorporated in 1832 to serve a 10-mile ...

These systems of interconnecting electric railways were made possible by a favorable political and business culture and a growing population. Investors saw the need for efficient transportation ...

IN March, 1913, Congress passed a law providing that the Interstate Commerce Commission should begin within sixty days to make a valuation of all the railways of the United States. The Commission has ...

RAILWAY AGE SEPTEMBER 2022 ISSUE: In his on line article Happy 75th, CTA!, Contributing Editor David Peter Alan makes reference to CTA’s Skokie Swift, now known as the Yellow Line, as the last remnant ...

This was not so much an expression of youthful adventure as a more prosaic instinct: it was about sounds and smells, machinery and timetables, gauges and networks and an ever-expanding glossary of ...

It was time for civilisation to take a trip south once more, travelling, as her wont is, in an armoured train. —Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Début of Bimbashi Joyce,” 1900 The tombstone in Ely Cathedral ...

Central railway station, Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The bicentenary celebrations of the birth of modern rail travel—commemorating the ...