In 1931, after a fire destroyed the entire town — then centered around the railroad tracks — a man named Jack Burkett moved ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Persons can travel on the railroads in the West very cheaply just now.

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 annual Railroad Hobby Show at the Eastern States Exposition grounds in West Springfield drew nearly 22,000 people this year, according to the show’s producer, the Amherst Railway Society.

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.