The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (R&LHS) has announced the winners of its annual Railroad History Awards program. The awards recognize senior achievement as well as outstanding work in ...

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The Baltimore and Ohio was the first railroad in the United States, opening for commerce in 1830. Early railroads used horses and steam engines. They competed with other methods of transportation, ...

Aiken was a railroad town long before the community became a fashionable retreat and almost 120 years before the phrase ...

Crocker's Car heads to Promontory Summit in 1869. The car shuttled railroad president Leland Stanford from Sacramento to officially complete the transcontinental railroad, and probably also carried ...

Green Bay, Wisconsin, is probably best known as a town that could fit nearly its entire adult population into its professional football stadium (all wearing cheeseheads, of course). Within sight of ...

The escape network helped freedom seekers flee enslavement in the southern U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists ...

A new photo-laden book about Altoona’s railroad history may be one of the few positives to come out of the myriad cancellations in 2020. Ken Kobus of Pittsburgh and Gary C. Rauch of Boulder, Colorado, ...

Tucked away in Guilford County, a patch of old growth woods undeveloped since the 1800s still holds traces of the Underground Railroad’s hidden history. Pieces of written and oral history tell stories ...

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A small town with a rich railroad history is in the process of planning a new train museum. The Watertown Railroad Museum will be an entire railroad park once it’s ...