In the early 1820s, before electricity or telephones railroads expanded and helped a growing nation expand. It was 200 years ago, and the steam engine whistle and sound of an approaching train ...

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 late author and historian Forest Crossen wrote of Boulder’s early railroad era, stating that in the 1870s the town’s residents “were gripped with railroad fever.” He added, “Few people today can ...

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 ...

When the railroad arrived in Lyons in 1885, it changed life in the fledgling community nestled in the foothills west of Longmont forever. Though Lyons had already started to develop the lumber and ...

Gone but fondly remembered is the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad, affectionately called the Ma & Pa, which once ran through the heart of Harford County from Whiteford in the northeast through ...

Nostalgia associated with the second Industrial Revolution usually includes the sight of the great plumes of smoke and the sound of deafening horns that only a train can create. Mankato, a town built ...