The HD-6 Neptune is envisioned to use a fuel cell drivetrain based on the one in the Hyundai Nexo SUV that’s currently on sale in California for $59,395. Fuel cells combine stored hydrogen with ...

With the coming of daylight saving, U.S. railroads hiked the number of lightweight streamline trains to 115, up 75% in 17 months. Before 1941's end, at least 20 more will be added. Meantime many ...

Imperial Western Beer Co., named after the legendary Southern Pacific train of the 1930s, is a cavernous space featuring tiled walls, a floor designed to look like a Navajo rug, and windows that ...

During the “Golden Age of Railroading” in the middle of the past century, the Southern Pacific’s Lark was the train to take between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, at least for folks who ...

Well aware that streamliner speed would appeal to the railroads’ customers, light-train builders like Budd and Pullman cannily concentrated their major sales appeal on coach-passenger comforts.

A footnote that remains curious to me is that, for all the national and worldwide attention surrounding the so-called Stranded Streamliner, the rescue train’s arrival at the Oakland Mole, and ...