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

The tiny upstart Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, known as the L.A. & I, was embroiled in a complex and intense race in January 1875, with the mighty Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first ...

Nostalgia for trains and train travel seems to remain constant in a world where very little, if anything, can be preserved in perpetuity. The fundamental principle of railroads has remained the same ...

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.

When the Civil War ended and recovery was in progress, more than 60,000 veterans came to Chattanooga during the late 1870s and the early 1880s to show their families the battleground and the view of ...