This article was originally published with the title “ Twentieth-Century Railroad Building ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 136 No. 4 (April 1927), p. 250 doi:10.1038 ...

To demonstrate that steam remains supreme in railway transport, the New York Central Railroad operated from Albany to New York yesterday a streamlined edition of its Twentieth Century Limited ...

Though a narrow gauge empire would still hang on into the 20th century. By the 1920s, the Rio Grande (reorganized into the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1925) had roughly 800 miles of 3 ...

At the start of the 20th century, nearly 42 million passengers traveled by rail as their primary mode of transportation. However, by the 1940s, railroads began to become less popular as buses ...