When the state of Ohio is brought up in conversation of railroad enthusiasts, the immediate connection made is that of Ohio’s railroad hotspots. Little towns across the state happen to...
The Art of Abandonment: Railroad Abandonments in the Pacific Northwest illustrates how economic challenges have worked to dramatically alter the Northwest’s railroad network. Hundreds of miles of track across the...
The Norfolk Southern Railway, formed by the merger of the Norfolk & Western and Southern Railways in 1982, has been known since its inception for the black and white/monochrome livery...
Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt formulated a bold plan for putting millions of unemployed Americans to work and restoring the nation's public lands. Between 1933...
This book examines the fashion by which the Great Northern Railway used the image of the plains-dwelling Blackfeet Native Americans to sell the romantic as well as western image of...
Take a journey through the railroading landscape of Northeastern Pennsylvania. This richly illustrated volume showcases a colorful assortment of locomotives captured from the late 1980s to the present day. From...
The story of the role played by streetcars in the development of Northeast Portland, Oregon begins in 1888, when rails were laid northward through virgin timber and bottomland towards the...
A photographic journey through the storied past and present of the iconic New York City subway system. While not the nation’s first subway (that honor goes to Boston), the New...
Before the first atomic bomb was completed in 1945 at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) was operating twenty-four hours a day hauling war...
Traces the history of the Stourbridge Lion, America’s first steam locomotive, and the railroads shaping northeastern Pennsylvania’s Stourbridge Line. Stourbridge Lion to the Stourbridge Line begins with the Stourbridge Lion,...
