James Shelton’s Reviews > Transatlantic Train: The Untold Story of the Boston Merchant Who Launched Donald McKay to Fame > Status Update

The profit in steerage pays for Trains enterprise, making regular sailing trips to and from Liverpool to Boston, competing with British Steamships and Regular New York Packets, utilizing his closer port and the ship building skills of a new shipbuilder.

Around the time steam locomotives began routes near my home in Virginia, sail power began to give way to stream power on ships between Liverpool and Boston. This out competed regularly scheduled large sailing ships from New York City.

Interesting history of transatlantic goods trade and how a Boston man built a stake in it.