Unlike most people, when Michael Patris thinks of railroads he looks into the heavens, up toward the San Gabriel Mountains, where Thaddeus S. Lowe built a railway to the sky. He also thinks more down ...

“Romance of the Rails: Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need.” By Randal O’Toole. Published by the Cato Institute. Reviewed by David Peter Alan. It was a sunny Friday ...

It would have been easier to produce a bigger book. Eric S. Conner said he and co-author Steve Barrall had plenty of photographs to choose from. The challenge, he said, was whittling down the ...