 | "The Phantom Epidemic" |
| Georgia Review (Summer 1963) 17:2, 123-33 |
 | "The Growth Strategies of Southern Railroads, 1865-1893" |
| Business History Review (Winter 1967) 41:4, 358-77 (With Kozo Yamamura) |
 | "The Strategy of Southern Railroads" |
| American Historical Review (April 1968) 73:4, 1052-1068 |
 | "Southern Railroad Leaders, 1865-1893: Identities and Ideologies" |
| Business History Review (Autumn 1968) 42:3, 288-310 |
 | "The Boys Who Stayed Behind: Northern Industrialists and the Civil War" |
| James I. Robertson Jr., and Richard M. McMurry (eds.), Rank and File (San Rafael, Cal., 1976), 137-56 |
 | "In Search of Jay Gould" |
| Business History Review (Summer 1978) 52:166-99 |
 | "Jay Gould: A Revisionist Interpretation" |
| Jeremy Atack, ed., Business and Economic History Second Series (1986) 15:55-68 |
 | "The Overland Route: First Impressions" |
| Railroad History (Autumn 1989), 16-34 |
 | "Replacement Technology: The Diesel as a Case Study" |
| Railroad History (Spring 1990), 109-120 |
 | "Competition and Regulation: the Railroad Model" |
| Business History Review (Summer 1990), 64:2, 311-325 |
 | "America's Lost Opportunity," in John Whitelegg, Staffan Hultén, and Torbjörn Flink (eds.) |
| High Speed Trains: Fast Tracks to the Future (North Yorkshire, Eng., 1993), 66-77 |
 | "The Continued Neglect of the Diesel Locomotive" |
| Railroad History (special issue, 2000), 6-15 |
 | "The Crash of 1929: A Review Article" |
| Business History Review (Summer 2001), 325-51 |
 | "Coming Full Circle: The Study of Big Business Since 1950" |
| Enterprise and Society (September 2001), 425-60 |