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 ...

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 ...

The coming of the railroad in the late 1800s greatly changed the lives of people residing in what are now Suburban Trends towns. In 1872, for example, the New Jersey Midland Railroad was grading and ...

A former East Sussex railway signal box built in 1858 could soon become a micropub. The signal box at Uckfield railway station controlled the town's level crossing, but was closed in 1991 when the new ...

An historic railroad abandoned in the 1980s will soon become a multi-use path for the Durham community. City leaders are re-imagining this old stretch of the Norfolk and Southern Railway, which was ...