Norfolk & Western's "Big Three" steam locomotives represent the apex and final work in the railroad’s steam era.

Did you know that railroads once served both sides of Chautauqua Lake, carrying passengers between Jamestown and Mayville from the late 1800s until the mid-1940s? The Chautauqua Traction Company ...

I wonder if any Press readers more knowledgeable than me on York railway history can confirm whether passenger trains did occasionally pull out of the old station in the late 1940s? Thank you.

Swanage Railway volunteer commercial director, Alexander Atkins, said: "With steam locomotives from the 1890s to the 1940s hauling passenger and demonstration freight trains as well as bracing brake ...

The number of Americans who lived in what was known as the "golden age" of train travel, which ended in the late 1940s, is rapidly diminishing.

The earliest American passenger railcars emerge from history in this remarkable 1870 documentation, where primitive wooden coaches represent the birth of organized rail travel in the New World.