It's taken nearly 50 years for a rail system to reconnect Los Angeles to Pasadena. In light of the re-opening of the route, Larry Mantle explores the history of rail transportation in Southern ...

Sacramento remains a key link to the past and present of rail transportation.

With the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, UC Santa Barbara scholar Kate McDonald is writing a book about the history of transportation in Japan.

Robert M. Schwartz, Rail Transport, Agrarian Crisis, and the Restructuring of Agriculture: France and Great Britain Confront Globalization, 1860-1900, Social Science History, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer ...