The Tucumcari Railroad Museum originally opened around 2015 to preserve the history of the railroad and town.

Dave Daruszka opened a recent presentation on the history of Chicago’s railroads by blowing a handheld train whistle. “If you’re standing on the tracks and you hear this sound, you’re dead,” he told ...

The History of American Railroads: The Years of Steam traces the rise and decline of American steam railroading, following classic steam trains from their prominence in the 1920s through the 1940s, ...

American and Canadian railroads enacted time zones — a concept that schedules all aspects of life today — on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883. The rail industry's creation of time zones was a brazen ...

The history of Idaho’s railroads and how they opened our state to the world. We explore the history of railroads in Idaho, from the late 1800’s to modern day. Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, the ...

IT is safe to say that no industry has been more continuously and scarchingly investigated than the steam railroads, and no other industry has had such wide and merciless publicity in reference to its ...