Railroads--and the efficient, cheap transport they offered between developing cities--were one of the primary catalysts of the Industrial Revolution in both Eng

Jeff Wilson offers you a brief history of each type of North American freight car and how designs have changed from World War I to the present helping you to mo

From 1880 through the 1950s, the New York, Ontario & Western Railway hauled coal from the rich anthracite deposits of eastern Pennsylvania to homes throughout t

Volume 2 of 'Trains and Technology' is devoted to railroad cars of nineteenth-century America. Since the variety of cars used during the nineteenth century was