All Things Trains: Modern Day Railroading

The American Museum of Electricity (What! You never heard of it?) stored its collection on the old Troy & Schenectady Railroad.

Original purpose of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was to bring Scranton to the world. In the process, it became a major trunkline. Half-century after Eisenhower, Congress and Interstate 80 consigned the Lackawanna Cutoff to oblivion, area citizens want to revive it for passenger service to ease highway congestion.

The National Corridors Initiative, Inc. is a private non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)3 organization that exists to support the development of rail infrastructure, including an integrated national transportation system that emphasizes rational transportation decisions. Come read our weekly E-Zine published weekly for over 5 years.

Most railroad passengers today are commuters. Taxpayers underwrite part of this cost and the ride is now more comfortable and the future more secure than ever before. Many ideas have been brought up over the years to ease commuting problems. A real story for this era is how automakers reshaped American ground transportation to serve their corporate wants instead of social needs.

A collection of articles about Railroads and Transit in Philadelphia. The nation's fourth-largest metropolitan area boasts its third-largest commuter rail network (after New York and Chicago). SEPTA is an amalgam of the suburban services of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company.

Railroad mergers have taken place right from the beginning of railroading. The two peak periods for mergers have been the 1920's and the 1960's. Because of the Transportation Act of 1920, the ICC engaged Professor William Ripley of Harvard to develop a tentative plan for railroad consolidation.

Ridership on New York State's high-speed rail system will continue to rise even if no improvements are made. An attempt to match or better a bus trip from Delaware to Old Saybrook which appeared in the NY TIMES. Travel over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between New Haven and Washington. Electrified railroads.

History of electrified railroads throughout the United States. The disparate voltages, cycles, DC versus AC, third rail versus overhead, etc were the result of free enterprise capitalist competition.

This is all about the railroad from Western Connecticut to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was owned by the New Haven Railroad and is still surviving.

A collection of information about railroad tunnels (mostly going under water) and railroad bridges going over water.