Soviet engineers envisioned a radical high-speed train that could have revolutionized transportation—a concrete monorail ...
who earned lower wages than conductors and motormen — the people who drive trains. “In the 1930s, transit workers were poorly paid,” said Joshua Freeman, a labor historian and retired ...
Since 1934, the train station St. John’s Terminal helped shape New York City as we recognize it today. Presently situated at the end of the High Line, which was then an operational elevated ...
spawning the streamlined craze of the 1930s. Ralph Budd, as savvy a marketer as an engineer, organized a publicity stunt for his train that would allow it to capture the American imagination.
Champagne-sipping passengers travelling on one of the world’s most luxurious trains from Stafford tomorrow, will dine from a ...