Trains & Railways: General Interest

The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio’s longest intrastate rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was t...

Time has been very good to Thomas Weber's Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it ...

Yet there isn't a train goes by all dayBut I hear its whistle shrieking....Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.—Edna...

Join Thomas and his friends for a sticker adventure on the Island of Sodor! Complete the sticker scenes with your...

How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in La...

Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban trans...

Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban trans...

Professor Jack Simmons was the most eminent railway historian of his time. His magnum opus was to have been a four volume study of the railways in ...

Professor Jack Simmons was the most eminent railway historian of his time. His magnum opus was to have been a four volume study of the railways in ...

In the preface the authors describe their approach, 'In examining the social history of railway stations we were concerned to treat them not as ina...

Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and t...

Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making.In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US govern...

Toton first saw railway yards built on the site in the 1850s to support the growing need to transport coal from the collieries of the Erewash Valle...

With images and vivid recollections, we journey away from the main line to valleys, quarries and factories. Industries as diverse as slate, iron, p...

Ajay and his friends are back in a third adventure!  When Kai, the young keeper of a legendary map, asks The Mumbai Sun for help, Ajay...

Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler’s one-stop source for visiting Europe’s cities and countries by rail for nearly fifty years. Newly rev...

Explore the past, present, and future of rail travel through 30 years of one artist's work.Once a common part of the American landscape, trains are...

Rising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest railroad filed for bankruptcy, American railroads are once again a ...

The first railroad to connect the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes, the Chicago & Alton Railroad played a key role in the economic develo...

From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, vi...

Brian Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to the world the subway created. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the 20th century, Cudahy cr...

London's Underground is one of the best-known and distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian Times, this remarkable feat of engineering has m...

One of the joys of the Welsh narrow gauge is its sheer variety and apparent antiquity. While many of the railways were designed from the outset as ...

The era of the steam locomotive at work in the city of Plymouth evokes many memories. This was Great Western territory, but the Southern played a p...

In Tim Bryan's Great Western Swindon the reader was taken on a tour of both inside and outside the GWR workshops at Swindon, which dominated the hi...

The Festiniog Railway can trace its history back to 1829 and it was constructed to serve the slate quarries in the area. It was built to the gauge ...

The narrow gauge railways of Britain have seemingly had the gift of choosing some of the country's most beautiful scenery through which to run. The...

Great Britain not only invented the main-line railway but has also led the way in it's preservation - not just locomotves and carriages but also th...