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In the early 1820s, before electricity or telephones railroads expanded and helped a growing nation expand. It was 200 years ...

In his work, Iron Blood: The Building of the Trans-continental Road, Luick paints a picture of the history of the development of the railroad that connected and strengthened America as a nation after ...

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 ...

KETCHUM • Ever wonder how and why Americans travel? You are invited to a lecture on railroads and tourism with Peter Blodgett, curator of Western American History at southern California’s Huntington ...

There is an iconic photograph depicting the Golden Spike ceremony that marked the completion of America’s Transcontinental Railroad, a feat of technological progress that some historians regard as ...

A portion of what was once the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad curves around a former flour mill in York County. Fewer Pennsylvanians ride the state’s rail these days, but a network of train lovers ...

RESTAURANT WEEK ON JANUARY 23RD. WELL, ALL THIS YEAR, AMERICA CELEBRATES ITS 250TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IS A NOD TO THE COUNTRY’S BICENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY. FROM 1975 TO 76, THIS AMERICAN FREEDOM ...

A storied piece of Americana celebrating America’s 250th birthday and the railroads begins later this month with four public ...