The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest intrastate rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroad also carried iron and salt. Despite the fact that the Hocking Valley was such a large railroad, with a huge economic and social impact, very little is known about it. The ......
Mobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern Railroad
Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borders, microhistory and space, human and nonhuman actors, and the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how the Ostbahn transformed an inner-Prussian railroad line into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. Shifting Lines, ......
Mobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern Railroad
Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borders, microhistory and space, human and nonhuman actors, and the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how the Ostbahn transformed an inner-Prussian railroad line into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. Shifting Lines, ......
The Incredible Saga of the Montana, Wyoming & Southern, and YellowstonePark Railroads
In the late 19th century, railroads played a crucial role in the development of Montana's economy. Robert A. Schalla examines early efforts to bring rail transport to the New World Mining District near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park and Red Lodge-Bear Creek Coal Field in south-central Montana. The saga began with a chance ......
The remarkable story of the Kansas City Southern tells of a company that from day 1 followed its own path, led by a succession of visionaries who were not afraid to take risks in pursuit of the railroad company's success. Without the resources of the earlier land grant railroads, the Kansas City-based company forged a unique approach to ......
Discover the Sunset Cluster-railroads that were doomed to fail? The first two decades of the 20th century were the twilight of the railroad age. Major routes had long been established, and local service became the focus of new construction. Beginning in 1907, a cluster of five shortline railroads were established in otherwise unconnected parts ......
What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West's most famous outlaws, including Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Dalton Gang, and Black Jack Ketchum, it was as much about the thrill of the crime as the riches to be won, thumbing their noses at the authorities, ......
Progress on the nation's second transcontinental railroad slowed in 1873. The Northern Pacific's proposed middle-the 250 miles between present Billings and Glendive, Montana-had yet to be surveyed, and Sioux and Cheyenne Indians opposed construction through the Yellowstone Valley, the heart of their hunting grounds. A previous surveying expedition ......
Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience explores the role of local frontline workers that kept the country's vast rail network running. Virtually every community with a railroad connection had a depot and an ......
