Rattling along the US railroads for five days straight proved a chance to enjoy a wealth of spectacular scenery from mountains to the Wild West. Pack a pillow and a blanket and hop on broad.

Natural gas often gets the credit, but it was really the railroads that made Muncie — a fact I try to remind myself of every time I’m stuck on Tillotson waiting for a slow, lumbering train to pass.

Yet that’s not as outlandish as his assertion that “the modern immigrant comes to eat the fruits” of those trees.

The movement of people and modern transportation shapes the way our cities are established and developed. For Bowling Green, its nearness to Barren River played a critical role in its early history, ...

Few economic philosophies have shaped America’s prosperity as profoundly as Henry Clay’s American System – a blueprint for ...

Norfolk & Western Class A locomotive No. 1218, the 2-6-6-4 built by the railroad’s East End Shops in Roanoke in 1943, will be ...

The April 2025 issue of Railway Age is now available digitally, with special reports on freight cars from Railinc and on ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

History of steam locomotive American Freedom Train 1, also known as the Reading Co. 2101, and its future at the B&O Railroad ...

The Dayton Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. held its 57th Beautillion Militaire Grand Ball on Saturday.   The event ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being ...