First of two parts Before jets dominated air travel and a fully developed, publicly funded interstate highway system ...

When streamlined designs took hold in the 1930s ... and Union Pacific all added open-air cars to selected passenger trains. With the Southern being the exception, the railroads in question ...

For the first time, aesthetics and engineering acted together, spawning the streamlined ... the Burlington the Passenger Service Award for 1947. By the 1950s, the passenger rail business was ...

Their breathtakingly bold streamlined design ... Last week Eastern railway passenger travel suddenly got Flashed up when two of the nation's most famous trains, New York Central's Twentieth ...

Lionel's perfect postwar train set features a classic steam engine and a whistle tender pulling five different and very colorful freight cars or five streamlined passenger cars. How, you may be ...