Almost a decade after Amtrak cancelled “National Train Day,” an outreach promotion launched in 2008 designed to familiarize ...

Here we profile 12 of the most famous railroad tycoons in the 1800s and early 1900s who helped shape the modern industry in ...

History comes alive on the rails this weekend as the Lake Superior Railroad Museum gears up to celebrate National Train Day on Saturday, May 10th — the anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike, ...

On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in the Utah desert, the blows were heard across the country. Telegraph wires wrapped around spike and sledgehammer transmitted the impact ...

It also explores the role of women and Chinese workers in building the transcontinental railroad. There are also exhibits on toy trains and the world of model railroading. Following recent line ...

(WBKO) - In its heyday, the United States transcontinental railroad spanned over 250,000 miles, though that was over a ...

“If one argues that history is sort of a prism—that you look at the past in order to understand the present and the future—go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...