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

Railroads transformed the world. They stitched together cities and continents, turning once-distant destinations into reachable places. While their role in daily transportation has diminished in many ...

There's a school of thought that railroads are one of the biggest reasons the United States is the country it is today. And if you trace train history back, it starts with the Baltimore and Ohio ...

A piece of Pacific Northwest Rail history rolled into Snoqualmie Tuesday morning as the Northwest Railway Museum saved one particular rail car from the scrap heap. If you rode the Amtrak Cascades ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is one of the oldest railways in the United States. It began life as the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road (B&J), which was incorporated in 1832 to serve a 10-mile ...

A piece of rail history in Albuquerque is getting a facelift, as a local organization looks to return the turntable downtown ...

Colonial history isn't the only kind Massachusetts has in abundance. These five towns reflect the state's rich railroading past and present.

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 ...

Whether it was showing off the 19th century Bellmore grade crossing operator’s shanty that he preserved in his backyard, or telling the story of Charles “Mile-a-Minute” Murphy, who, in 1899, kept pace ...