who earned lower wages than conductors and motormen — the people who drive trains. “In the 1930s, transit workers were poorly paid,” said Joshua Freeman, a labor historian and retired ...

A new art exhibit in Downtown Brooklyn shows that etiquette was often hard to come by on trains, even in the 1930s. "Shining a Light on The Subway Sun: The Art of Fred G. Cooper and Amelia Opdyke ...

At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million teenagers were living on the road in America, many criss-crossing the country by illegally hopping freight trains. This film ...

Soviet engineers envisioned a radical high-speed train that could have revolutionized transportation—a concrete monorail capable of reaching 300 km/h (190 mph). Unlike conventional railways, it would ...