Railroad history

Women and Railroading
Shirley Burman 11/16/2009
Rosie (not the Riveter) creates a precedent for working women everywhere by challenging the Southern Pacific Railroad, Transportation Communications International Union, and the state of California
Thirty-three years of railroad Christmas cards
David C. Warner 10/23/2009
It takes dedication and flexibility to amass three decades of photos for the annual Christmas card
The Stages of U.S. Railroad Electrification
Scott Lothes 09/25/2009
A brief look at the eras in American railroad electrification
Graphics Promoting Tourism
John Gruber 08/17/2009
See the spectacular ads from the early to mid-20th century that drew people to train travel
Reading Co. Office Car No. 15
 06/23/2009
See historic photos and shots of the Henry E. Huntington's last run
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Harrison, In His Own Words
 06/19/2009
Erie Railroad's Waldwick Tower preserved
Curt Springstead 05/22/2009
By the end of the year, this 19th century interlocking tower in northern New Jersey will reopen as a museum
McCloud River Railroad: as seen through Ted Benson's lens
 04/24/2009
Iconic railroad photographer Ted Benson immortalizes memories of the McCloud River Railroad in black and white.
Railway preservation projects and funding in England
 03/20/2009
You've read our story about railway preservation in England in May 2009 Trains, now see who got the money to make it happen
Galveston Railroad Museum flood damage
 03/20/2009
Wheeling & Lake Erie's predecessors
 05/23/2008
Reading up on America's oldest rail tunnels
 07/07/2006
Styled to sell
John Kelly 07/06/2006
Meet the men who designed the streamlined passenger trains of the 1930's
Interurbans
Robert S. McGonigal  06/05/2006
Part railroad, part trolley, part rapid transit
Railway Express Agency
George H. Drury 06/05/2006
Yesterday's Federal Express
Railway Post Offices
Robert S. McGonigal  06/05/2006
Moving and sorting mail
Who built the steam locomotives
Kevin P. Keefe  06/05/2006
The "Big Three" of steam
Who built the streamliners
George H. Drury  06/05/2006
Historical profiles of North American passenger-car builders
The Jawn Henry
 06/05/2006
And other turbine steam locomotives
BNSF Railway merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Canadian National merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Canadian Pacific merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Conrail merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
CSX merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Kansas City Southern merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Pan Am Railways merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Norfolk Southern merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Union Pacific merger family tree
 06/02/2006
A genealogy of the well-known railroads that make up today's system
Mexico rail mergers 1960-1987
 06/02/2006
Untangling the family tree
Trains on film
 05/01/2006
The good, the bad and the ugly in railroad movies
NORAC: Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee
Martin Graetz  05/01/2006
A common rulebook for the diverse Northeast
A history of track gauge
George W. Hilton 05/01/2006
How 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches became the standard
The colorful caboose
John Kelly  05/01/2006
Once a fixture at the end of freight trains, the caboose played a critical role in railroad operations, until technology caught up

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