Here are a few railroad practices that were common in the 1980s but not today. Freight trains used to have a staffed caboose as the last car for safety, now replaced by an electronic device. Cabooses ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. National Museum of History and ...

The last thing you’d expect a railroad coal car to do is take flight. But one tried in August 1926 at the John B. Hull & Son fuel business on upper Main Street in Great Barrington. Hull in 1900, ...

General Motors no longer has a backlog of finished new vehicles sitting at factories awaiting a rail car to take them to dealerships — that's good news for car buyers. GM's factory lots were cleared ...