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To commemorate 200 years of American rail in 2027, the B&O Railroad Museum has launched the website Americanrail200.org. This page is a centralized hub for rail enthusiasts to share specialized events ...

Map list -- Introduction -- Opening the trade routes -- First railroads, 1700-1830 -- Origins of the streetcar -- Rail track developments -- Harnessing the power of steam, 1800-34 -- Coming of the ...

Lubbock is celebrating the engines which built America this week ...

Silkroad Ensemble brings the American Railroad initiative, conceived by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens to Rogers at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 to the Rogers Convention Center. The program focuses on the ...

Railroad history tends to be reductive, or at the very least presented without a great deal of context. Why that is, and what ...

CHURCH CREEK, MD ‒ Arnold Montgomery looks to the future by looking back through Harriett Tubman's eyes. On a recent visit to the rural area where the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor was ...

Barbara Stanwyck in a still from the 1939 Cecil B. DeMille movie, “Union Pacific.” (Barbara Stanwyck papers, American Heritage Center) The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming ...

Silkroad Ensemble brings the program to Rogers Convention Center at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12. "If you would've asked me what I knew about the American railroad before I did this project, I would have a ...