FreightWaves Classics profiles the Lightning Express, which crossed the nation in less than four days.
FreightWaves Classics continues its profile of the transcontinental railroad.
FreightWaves Classics profiles the transcontinental railroad.
FreightWaves Classics profiles the use of Chinese labor to help build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation that authorized the transcontinental railroad. This FreightWaves Classics article profiles the impact of that legislation.
This FreightWaves Classics article provides an overview of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Company.
The transportation of goods and people was transformed when eastern and western rails were connected in 1869.
Famed artist Syd Mead worked for Volvo Trucks at one point in his career, leaving behind a series of conceptual drawings.
