"One Hundred Years of Railroad Development" is a historical ... tribute to past innovations and a lively snapshot of early 20th-century American spirit. Email us at [email protected] if you ...

The rise and fall of the American railroad has been the subject ... engaging program, “Early Railroads in the Chartiers Valley.” The story begins in 1830, when only four railroads existed ...

MESSRS. EDITORS—In No. 32 of the present volume of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, you say in your article entitled "Canals and Railroads," that "the wisest policy to pursue, apparently, is to utilize ...

Hill was "the last and greatest American railroad leader in the heroic era ... for fuel. By the early 1870s, Hill saw an opportunity to build a railroad system through the Red River Valley.

EDITORS—The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN stands deservedly high ... friends of the canal are contradictory when they ask a tax on railroads for the benefit of this canal, and " their logic and sense ...