Book of Donmon Teith

Efforts to create and mould new technologies have been a central, recurrent feature of the American experience since at least the time of the Revolution. In Reg

The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry. In the decade following, economists documented the effects

In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad h

"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of

Demonstrates how railroad safety evolved from the intersection of market pressures, technology, and public sentiment.--Journal of Southern History