This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century.

New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars began as soon as the first line

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions. Yet few Americans pay attention to rail lines,