Feral Interactive recently brought the iconic game "Sid Meier's Railroads!" to iOS. It's a fun way to learn railway history, although some controls are challenging. Sid Meier's Railroads! is a ...

The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (R&LHS) has announced the winners of its annual Railroad History Awards program. The awards recognize senior achievement as well as outstanding work in ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

Forty years ago, there was a lot going on in "Train World." New museums, mainline steam programs, railroad-specific historical societies, and innovative preservation projects spawned a sense that ...

Sometimes stories have a happy ending, other times perhaps not. Concord is a place that is rich with history, history that lives on with each and every person that walks our streets each day. We pass ...

Clemson history professor and prolific railroad historian H. Roger Grant has died. Any readers who study railroad history are likely familiar with the work of H. Roger Grant. One of the most prolific ...

Driving along the back roads of Alamance County, you’ll find the crumbling remnants of a colonial settlement -- older than the United States itself. Park your car and step into the 1700s: Small wooden ...

The Baltimore and Ohio was the first railroad in the United States, opening for commerce in 1830. Early railroads used horses and steam engines. They competed with other methods of transportation, ...