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These systems of interconnecting electric railways were made possible by a favorable political and business culture and a growing population. Investors saw the need for efficient transportation ...

IN March, 1913, Congress passed a law providing that the Interstate Commerce Commission should begin within sixty days to make a valuation of all the railways of the United States. The Commission has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike and Andrew Lamport, 76 and 28 respectively, are able to trace their family railway history back to 1846 - Russell Sach Those ...

It was time for civilisation to take a trip south once more, travelling, as her wont is, in an armoured train. —Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Début of Bimbashi Joyce,” 1900 The tombstone in Ely Cathedral ...

Dan Snow looks at how, from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways developed into the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Dan Snow traces the development ...

Central railway station, Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The bicentenary celebrations of the birth of modern rail travel—commemorating the ...