America’s fastest rail lines
How many places in the United States can a railroad passenger travel more than 70 miles in one hour? This…
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What you’re seeing here is a transformation that’s nothing short of remarkable. Twenty years ago, a map of West Coast…
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Chicago might have more trains, and St. Louis a big shiny arch, but Kansas City is the ton-mile king, with…
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Railroad names: Georgia Railroad, Great Northern, Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, Illinois Central, Kansas City Southern, Lehigh Valley, Louisville & Nashville,…
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In the early 2000s, North America’s 88 automobile assembly plants produced about 15 million new cars and trucks a year.…
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Coal is the most important rail commodity in the United States. In the early 2000s, when this map was produced,…
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Geographic growth by acquisition or merger, and the elimination of redundant routes by sale or abandonment, are two factors that…
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Compared here are the main lines of railroads that, for most of the 20th century, fed the nation with its…
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Commercial shipping on the Great Lakes follows a 2,300-mile corridor from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the western edge of…
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This Map of the Month was featured in the February 2009 issue of Trains magazine. The railroad Abraham Lincoln so…
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This Map of the Month appeared in the February 2004 issue of Trains magazine. Historians have argued that one key to…
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Twenty-four years separate these two density maps — a long time in North American railroading. The 1974 Penn Central map…
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