Prior to the time of the streamliners, North American passenger trains were not particularly colorful. Most sleeping cars ...

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

Despite the streamliner craze, The Comet is only one of a handful of new diesel trains, and diesels are still only used for passenger traffic; most railroads streamline their existing steam ...

After 27 years of running holiday passenger trains, fund-raising excursions, and shipper specials, owner Jeff Pontius of Penn ...

By the 1950s, the passenger rail business was suffering ... the Pioneer Zephyr has long remained a shining symbol of the streamliner era. The train was presented to the Museum of Science and ...

In January 1952, a combination of drifting snow and a snow slide brought a luxury train to a wheel-grinding halt in the ...