Posted March 10, 2023
Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition...
Posted January 11, 2023
The New York Edison Company was the largest provider of electricity in New York City in the 1920s, employing a fleet of several hundred...
Posted May 11, 2022
In his 1937 book The Locomotive (its esthetics), industrial designer Raymond Loewy writes that the opportunity to design a locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Posted March 25, 2021
Trainspotting—that passionate hobby of sighting specific trains on their routes—is one of the best-known examples of an “anorak subject.” Only truly dedicated railfans have...
Posted October 17, 2017
It’s National Archives Month! But you knew that, right? Chicago Collections and the Chicago Area Archivists have adopted the theme of “Hidden Stories” for...
Posted June 5, 2017
In the Transportation Library, we have the opportunity to assist the faculty and students of Northwestern University’s Transportation Center with cutting-edge interdisciplinary transportation research, while at...