It's Sunday afternoon at the Florida Railroad Museum in Parrish, and a crowd – toddlers, teens and a wide mix of adults – is here to ride the rails into history. Engineer Pat Masterson climbs ...

The $110 million museum, being built along the Ohio River, commemorates the secret Underground Railroad network that helped slaves escape from the South to the free North during the 1800s.

Grace Meng speaks during an unveiling of stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.