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1911 | Photograph
An Army of Clerks
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911), depicts a room full of freight department clerks.
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1911 | Photograph
An Early Locomotive
This image from The Modern Railroad, published in 1911, shows one of the earliest locomotives built for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
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1911 | Photograph
Crane Recovering a Damaged Locomotive
This image from The Modern Railroad(1911) captures two cranes removing a badly damaged Mogul locomotive from the site where it derailed.
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1911 | Photograph
Great Northern Locomotives: Old and New
This image from The Modern Railroad(1911), shows the first engine of the James J. Hill system sitting next to one of the Great Northern Railroad's more recent models.
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1911 | Photograph
Interior of a Dining Car
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911) captures the interior of an elegant dining car, including several of its male and female passengers.
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1911 | Photograph
The "Industrial Army of America"
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911) depicts a large number of railroad mechanics posing with a locomotive.
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1911 | Photograph
The "John Bull" Locomotive
This image from Edward Hungerford's The Modern Railroad (1911) features the "John Bull," a historic locomotive of the Camden and Amboy railroad.
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1911 | Photograph
The Biggest Locomotive in the World
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911), showcases "the biggest locomotive in the world," a huge engine built by the Santa Fe Railroad in its Topeka, Kansas shops.
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1911 | Photograph
The Railroad Conductor
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911), shows a railroad conductor at work.
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1911 | Photograph
The Railroad Track Walker
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911), captures a track walker, lantern in hand, performing his nightly duties.
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1911 | Photograph
The Wrecking Train
This image from The Modern Railroad (1911) shows a number of railroad workers standing atop a wrecking train.
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September 15, 1912 | Time Table
The Chicago Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway in 1912 stressed the opportunities in the Northwestern United States. This "new land" would allow the farmer to "pay for his land in two crops" and the "investor" to "make large and quick profits."
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1913 | Time Table
Grand Trunk Raolway System
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1913 | Artwork
Newburgh at Noon, 1913
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1914 | Time Table
Grand Trunk Pacific
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1918 | Book
Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is a personal account of the vast changes wrought on civilization over the course of the 19th century; technology, politics, economics, cultural, and intellectual transformations drive Adams' reflections. In the following excerpts, Adams addresses the transportation revolution.
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1918 | Book
My Ántonia
An excerpt from Willa Cather's My Ántonia.
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1921 | Book
The School Days of an Indian Girl
Zitkalà-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) writes about her sense of dislocation on the railroad as she was taken to boarding school and the feelings she had on her return home.
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1922 | Diary
Rutherford B. Hayes Diary Entry, August 2, 1877
This August 2, 1877 entry from President Rutherford B. Hayes' diary notes the proximity of his relatives to the violence in Pittsburgh.
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1922 | Diary
Rutherford B. Hayes Diary entry, August 5, 1877
This August 5, 1877 entry in his diary, President Rutherford B. Hayes affirms his views of limited government and the free labor right of contract, as well as his concerns about the "capitalists."
