In the early ... a box car that’s half as tall. Gondolas carry things like scrap metal, logs, lumber, aggregates, steel, sand, copper, and iron ore. Before the American railroads were built ...

Measures to secure a patent lor a new and improved apparatus for replacing railroad cars upon the track have been taken by Lucian B. Flanders, of Dunkirk, N. Y. It is necessary to observe that ...

By the 1820s purchasing jobs sent him often to Europe, where in 1830 Whitney had the opportunity to ride an early British steam ... of Exchange In the Pacific Railroad, Whitney found his purpose.