As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, we are reminded by the American Revolution that the nation's independence was won not only by battlefield bravery but also by extraordinary feats of ...
NJ Transit commuters will see full rail service restored Monday after a new $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge over the ...
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America 250: Rails that built a nation: How America’s technological future began with the railroad
As the U.S. Department of Transportation notes that for nearly two centuries, “railroads have been an indispensable part of America’s economy, society and way of life.” That indispensability wasn’t ...
Sheboygan’s last passenger train left Penn Avenue depot in 1971, ending decades of rail service and marking the end of a local transportation era.
Perhaps written by a judge — “did not get done as some of the depositions failed to get here in time, just throwed it out of court and quit.” The card captured the challenges of digging a level ...
The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea's death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent ...
By the Revolutionary War in the late 1770s, those marking the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death on March 17 included Irish ...
Clive, Des Moines, Grimes, Urbandale, West Des Moines and Windsor Heights plan to petition the federal government to turn what may soon be a more than 12-mile stretch of abandoned railroad into a new ...
In the early 1820s, before electricity or telephones railroads expanded and helped a growing nation expand. It was 200 years ago, and the steam engine whistle and sound of an approaching train ...
In 1792, federal law barred African Americans from bearing arms in the U.S. Army, even though they had served in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Yet ...
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History features the landmark transportation exhibition “America on the Move.” 18 multimedia dioramas, each re-creating a specific time and place using ...
“America, so far as concerned physical problems, had changed little… The same bad roads and difficult rivers, connecting the same small towns, stretched into the same forests in 1800 as when the ...
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