Overview :In this lavishly illustrated memoir, William D. Middleton invites readers to climb aboard and share with him 60 years of railroad tourism ar... Read More
Overview :Early in the 19th century, growing American cities began to experience transportation problems. One solution was the horse-drawn streetcar, ... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :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 goi... Read More
Overview :Frank Julian Sprague invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires. Within a year, electric streetcars ha... Read More
Overview :American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect... Read More