When public image was a big deal for railroads, many of them went out of their way to put together great looking freight locomotive ... paint schemes from the 1940s to the 1980s.” ...

In the wake of some high-profile derailments in recent years, Congress requested a National Academies report assessing the ...

However, by the 1940s, railroads began to become less popular ... Passenger trains used to be owned by private companies that operated freight trains. At the start of the 20th century, nearly ...

In the decades following, American trains - carrying both freight and passengers ... travel took place on rail, according to US Census Bureau statistics. But by the 1940s, American's insatiable ...