Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins wit

"A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book

If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is “the best idea we ever had,” the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor,

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the n