The Illinois Prairie Path in West Chicago runs near a weathered brick building just north of Wheaton Academy. Built around the turn of the 20th century, the structure served as a passenger depot ...

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.

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

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

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 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. ... Railroads: Rumble in the West.

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

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP)–The largest railroad-themed trade show in America is returning to West Springfield. The Railroad Hobby Show will be held in four buildings at the Eastern States ...