Trains revolutionized transportation in the US. People were no longer dependent on horse-drawn carriages and natural waterways to move across the country. The rapid spread of railroads made the ...

As Bob approached retirement in the late 1990s, several of us railroad editors began to be concerned about our future needs, and we worked with Art to get other designers more involved in map making.

The US's railroad network is made up of around 140,000 miles of track, but many of our trains are slow and outdated. Over the last couple of decades, countries like China, Japan, the UK ...