2019年4月29日 · After World War II, when the railroad companies had to transport troops around the country, they upgraded the service. Here's a look back at some of what the railroads were offering to entice passengers back in the late 1940s.

During the 1940s train travel was heavily impacted by World War II, which required a significant number of resources and led to a decrease in the production of new trains and a focus on repairing and maintaining existing trains

January 29 – Three gasoline-powered trains carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.

2013年6月19日 · Pullman and American Passenger Trains – Social History – Photos – 1940s and 1950s – The Golden Age of American Passenger Trains…

2020年6月1日 · Premiere Passenger Trains during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were the finest in the world. With excellent meals, suburb Pullman service, dinner in the diner, club lounges, train secretaries, barbershops, cocktail bars, observation cars… trains like the Super Chief, 20th Century Limited, and the California Zephyr were world-famous.

The rising tide of diesel locomotives and streamlined passenger trains was largely stilled by the exigencies of war. The conflict thrust unimaginable traffic, both freight and passenger, on the railroads, pushing employees and equipment to the limit.

CB&Q’s Vista Dome car and GM’s Astra Liner train are forerunners of radically different designs for postwar trains. Spend an hour at Chicago’s Englewood Union Station, where trains of four railroads keep the tracks busy.

Train travel was the only realistic means of long-distance travel for ordinary people during 1940s wartime. This page elaborates and explains what it was like to travel by train at that time: the dirt, soot and over-crowding and the hypnotic effect of looking out of the train window.

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2024年2月23日 · There is much narration detailing the forward-thinking mentality of the railroads, including facts about the modernization of passenger trains. There is also a short discussion of the history of train travel, some information on the kinds of goods freight trains carry, and more.