A forgotten 1800s railroad helped pave the way for the country's first superhighway, marking the dawn of high-speed American ...

Discover how the development of railroads revolutionized American agriculture, connecting farms to markets and reshaping rural America forever ...

Ride early Wisconsin trains and explore wood tracks, lantern signals, and rail innovations. Ride the rails with Doris Platt to discover Wisconsin’s early trains, wood-burning engines and wooden tracks ...

The Los Angeles to Salt Lake line set the foundation for Las Vegas to connect to the country’s major rail hub of Chicago and ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "Between 1826 and 1858 the state of Pennsylvania built and operated the largest and most technologically advanced system of canals and railroads in ...

The rapid expansion of America's railroad system in the 1800s and early 1900s was driven largely by a small group of powerful businessmen. Here we profile 12 of the most influential railroad magnates ...

Division of Transportation Railroad Reference Files / Series 4: Railroad Companies and Lines Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning ...

Genealogists and family historians at some point in their research consult “mug” books. Many of these books were produced during the late 1800s and early 1900s by a number of publishing companies.

Rail travel has long captured the imagination of people, from the first transcontinental journeys in North America and Australia to groundbreaking British trains and incredible advancements by the ...