Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Rail Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on railroads is found on this site from Wikipedia encyclopedia. Discusses the history of railways, different parts of the railway, types of trains, and the economic aspects of rail ownership and operation.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Transforming the Waterfront: San Francisco and Oakland, Ca.

For Students 9th - 10th
Containers-steel boxes stuffed with goods-and the systems for transferring them between ships, trucks, and trains transformed commercial shipping. Containerization streamlined freight handling and slashed the cost of transporting cargoes...