Like many communities in the 19th century, when a rail line opened in an area, it was one more step out of the wilderness.

This 1928 cover shows two railroad erection cars building the Pennsylvania Railroad’s new main line bridge over the Wabash ...

Eight months after officials plunged shovels into dirt for a ceremonial ground-breaking, phase 1 of the project — which, for ...

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.

KINGSTON, N.Y., Jan. 19.--The New-York, Buffalo and West Shore Railroad Company is still at war with some of the property-owners along the route, at least in this county. The road passes along the ...

The rapid expansion of America’s railroad system in the 1800s and early 1900s was driven largely by a small group of powerful ...

The Western Pacific is a short (1,188 miles) railroad whose main line runs from Salt Lake City to the Coast, but its tracks cover some coveted ground. Last week, in a conference before the ...

The weather here continues very cold, but all the Railroads are open except the Chicago and Mississippi. A small portion of the Illinois Central road has not, however, been heard from.

The Railroad Hobby Show will be held in four buildings at the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, January 26 & 26.

At the same time Strong was building west from Kansas, he was also building east, reaching Chicago in 1886, making it the westward gateway to the destinations the Santa Fe was adding.

How the West Was Won It would be hard to imagine a subject which lends itself more strikingly to the wide-screen process than this yarn of the pioneers who opened the American West. It's a story ...

An office building believed to have once been part of the Underground Railroad will be turned into eight apartments and renamed.