America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as

All aboard for the history of one of the most audacious and innovative railroad engineering feats in history from the celebrated Floridian author. Although seve

For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens