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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. Steam ...