Ninety photographs with captions present the activities of the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last major railroad in America to use steam power. Most of the p

The renowned photographer’s stirring tribute to the last steam locomotive railway and the end of an American way of life. O. Winston Link photographed the Nor

On November 8, 1861, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause.

Photographs and text introduce the reader to the people and places associated with the Norfolk and Western Railway which in the 1950s was the last American rail

Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive documents the role played by mechanical engineers in the development of locomotive design. The steam engine and the mec