Railroad

Organization, management, and issues of rail transport.

Resources in this category:

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
http://cprr.org/

The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum exhibits stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents illustrating the history of the first transcontinental railroad. Detailed discussion of the photographic processes used to create the images are included. There is also dicussion of the contribution of the Chinese workers who helped build the railroad.

Cyberspace World Railroad
http://www.cwrr.com/

A large collection of railroad related resources, including news, train schedules, and a library of railroad information. Focuses on modern railroads. Definitely worth checking out.

The Family Tree of North American Railroads
http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/fmly_tre.html

"A chart of major railroad company mergers, takovers and controls that have taken place since 1900." Freight carriers only. From the Webville and Hypertext RR Co.

North American Steam Locomotives
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/

Everything you ever wanted to know about steam locomotives in North America. Maintained by computer graphics programmer Wes Barris, this site has a database of surviving steam locomotives, and one of "lost forever (but not forgotten)" ones, virtual tours of various railroad museums, links to many other steam locomotive and other train-related sites, and more.

Rail Europe
http://www.raileurope.com/us/index.htm

Information about train passes, flights, and car rental for travel in Europe, including trains in Britain and Russia. This is a commercial site and therefore you can order tickets here, including group travel arrangements but it also has alot of useful free information.

Railfaneurope.net -- The European Railway Server
http://www.railfaneurope.net/

This server provides information about the European Railways, for railway fans as well as for travellers who wish to explore Europe by train.

Specifications of Famous Steam Engines
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/misc/specifications.shtml

"Specifications of steam engines that Wes Barris thinks are neat." Arranged by line and engine number. Gives class, year built, manufacturer, top speed, horsepower, and other information.

Subways / Transport
http://www.reed.edu/~reyn/transport.html

This site, created by a subway enthusiast, provides numerous maps and images of subways around the world. It also provides links to transit web sites, transportation museums, and other related web sites.

Webville and Hypertext Railroad Company
http://www.spikesys.com/webville.html

"A site for the archiving of historical and informational documents and binaries concerning Railroads, Railfanning and Model Railroading;" technical, historical, rosters, and other information.

Welcome to www.subways.net
http://www.subways.net/

"These pages are a collection of photos, maps and links to transit related sites. Each page in the countries section will have a list of cities plus informaton on their transit systems and any links I've been able to glean."