8x10" 148 Pages In 1903 the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company broke ground on an ambitious project, to create the City of Brotherly Love's first high speed rail system. When it in 1907, the Market Street...
8x10" 102 Pages The Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co. produced trolley cars, electric locomotives and motor coaches for nearly every transit system in Canada. Founded in the 1890s by Thomas Ahearn, Warren Soper and William...
8x10" 165 Pages On October 27, 1904, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company opened the first subway in New York City. Running between City Hall and 145th Street at Broadway, the line was greeted with enthusiasm and, in...
8x10" 52 Pages Founded in 1901 in Niles, Ohio, the Niles Car and Manufacturing Co. produced a range of machinery for railroads and sugar mills. The company gained a reputation for making high quality passenger cars,...
8x10" 45 Pages Founded in the 1830's, the Baldwin Locomotive Works rapidly became America's premier builder of steam engines for railway use. In the aftermath of the Civil War, a new standard emerged on the railroads of...
8.5x11" 182 Pages Originally printed in 1898 and then periodically revised, "The Motorman...and His Duties" served as the definitive training text for a generation of streetcar operators. Since being reprinted by...
8x10" 342 Pages "It has been said, with truth, that an inherent love of things mechanical finds a more or less definitive place in the character of every Englishman..." So begins The Motor Cyclist's Handbook, a...
8x10" 39 Pages Based in Paris, Illinois, the McGuire - Cummings Manufacturing Co, built trolley cars, passenger coaches and electric locomotives from the 1890s until 1930. McGuire supplied rolling stock for many of the...
8x10" 721 Pages When it was originally published in 1899, The Locomotive Up to Date was hailed as "the most definitive work ever published concerning the mechanism that has transformed the American nation: the steam...
8x10" 245 Pages Originally created in 1911, Locomotive Building is the definitive text concerning the construction of steam engines for railroad use. Chapters include descriptions of all locomotive systems and their...
8x10" 127 Pages Running Point Operating historic electric trolley cars in a modern urban environment can be a challenge. Safe operation requires proper training, both in the classroom and on city streets. Created by Old...
8x10" 177 Pages Originally written in the late 1900s and then periodically revised, A History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works chronicles the origins and growth of one of America's greatest industrial-era corporations...
8x10" 236 Pages Henry Ford introduced his Model T in 1908, and changed the face of America. The arrival of the "Tin Lizzie" on city streets also signaled the beginning of the end for a debate that had raged since the...
8.5x11" 87 Pages In 1895, entrepreneur Louis S. Cass and his brothers opened a two-mile long narrow gauge horsecar line in Waterloo, Iowa. The line grew into the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railway, or the "Cedar...
8x10" 94 Pages Founded in 1899, the Canadian Cycle and Motor Company was one of the largest suppliers of bicycles in North America CCM also...
4 Movies 152 Minutes Made in the late 1930's,"Conquest of the Air" is an epic portrait of the early years of aviation. Featuring rare footage of balloons, zeppelins and then a host of heavier-than-air machines, the film...
7 Movies 95 Minutes Volume 2 Featured on this DVD are six rare and historic films, showing the United State Coast Guard in action in the period before, and during World War II. They include two films from the 1930s: "Cadet...
6 Movies 120 Minutes Volume 1The Story of the Coast Guard is one of proud service in peace and at war. Featured on this DVD are six rare films dating as far back as 1935 showing great moments in the history of the 'First...
14 Movies 90 Minutes Twice in the 20th Century Germany's Kriegsmarine threatened England's dominance of the oceans. During WWI, Germany achieved victory at Jutland, but Germany still lost the war, in part because submarine...
6 Movies 99 Minutes The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed the United States' vaunted battleship navy. Yet, the most powerful fleet the world had ever seen would rise from the ashes of December 7th. To man the...
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