John H. White, Jr., is senior historian emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution and professor of history and mechanical engineering at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. Articles by this Contributor Spring/Summer 1991Changing Trains Railroads have thrived on moving freight for a century and a half. But today the nature of that business has been transformed. Read >> Summer 1986A Few Words About This Picture An 1865 photograph of a Massachusetts enginehouse provides a window on the world of nineteenth-century railroading Read >> Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2
