On the morning of May 26, 1934, a shimmering silver locomotive pulled out of Denver's Union Station bound for Chicago. The Zephyr was unlike any train seen before. Powered by a revolutionary compact ...
The industrial design profession was born from the ashes of the Wall Street crash of 1929. Companies lucky enough to survive the debacle saw an unprecedented rise in competition. With the market ...
One day in 1865, Rev. Samuel Calthrop, a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard’s crew for its first ...
It was the dawn of a new age in rail transportation, one in which coal-fired steam locomotives gave way to oil-powered diesels. By the spring of 1936, Bloomington residents could travel between ...
(STAUNTON, VA) — The hills and hollows of the Shenandoah Valley will soon be hearing the “lonesome whistle blow” after long absence, thanks to Staunton’s Virginia Scenic Railway. For more than 70 ...
Many a person living along the New York Central’s right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two ...
During the “Golden Age of Railroading” in the middle of the past century, the Southern Pacific’s Lark was the train to take between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, at least for folks who ...
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