History In 1896 a railroad crashed two trains head-on for fun and killed two spectators Ellsworth Toohey

History "STOP – DEATH – STOP" a gloriously excessive 1930s railroad crossing signal Ellsworth Toohey

disasters CEO of rail company Norfolk Southern rewarded with 37% pay raise after derailment and toxic fire in Ohio Rob Beschizza

Reframing railroad history Railroads and US Imperialism Elías Villoro

History Site maps the abandoned railroads of America Rob Beschizza

china Would you spend $650,000 to ride a transforming mecha? Séamus Bellamy

disasters CEO of Norfolk Southern fired over "consensual" relationship with subordinate Rob Beschizza

podcast Listen to a firsthand account of hobo life in new "City of the Rails" podcast Rusty Blazenhoff

music Pass the Sault Elías Villoro

movies 1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor Elías Villoro

robots Japanese company recruits Gundam-esque Mechas to fix railroads Thom Dunn

music How a math trick helped one band made 500% more in streaming music royalties Thom Dunn

russia Russia announces new plans to use forced prison labor, promises it "won't be a gulag" Thom Dunn

documentaries The Met just posted Hilary Harris's Organism (1975) to YouTube Mark Frauenfelder

new zealand Behind the gorgeous railroad posters of New Zealand Miss Cellania

tabletop games If forced to play Monopoly, use this gameplan Mark Frauenfelder

History Public cemeteries as a precondition for the sale of land John Struan

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow