American and Canadian railroads enacted time zones — a concept that schedules all aspects of life today — on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883. The rail industry's creation of time zones was a brazen ...

Hidden off Peace Street inside a no-man’s-land of weeds and gravel, a relic of Raleigh’s steel-rail past still rumbles and clangs like a steam-powered ghost. The turntable for the old Raleigh & Gaston ...

Nevertheless, Matusitz said, “Within days (after Nov. 18, 1883) almost seventy percent of schools, courts, and local governments adopted railroad time as the official time standard.” The change didn’t ...

On Nov. 18, 1883, the scene at a Chicago railroad station reminded a Tribune reporter of the biblical story of Joshua commanding the sun to stand still. “At about a quarter to 12 o’clock, Chicago time ...

Early 1960s - In this aerial photo looking west over downtown Spokane, Washington, the Northern Pacific tracks winds from lower right, past the NP depot at 1st Ave. and Bernard St., and west down ...

Tracey-[sic],-Minn., engine of the South Dakota division, Detroit-Publishing Co., Published between-1880 and 1930. In 1853 when Carnegie joined the Pennsylvania Railroad, trains carried a sense of ...

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