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The glass bubble top of the car, once owned by country music legend Merle Haggard, allows for panoramic views.
Reading & Northern's entrepreneurial owner has built castoff Pennsylvania lines into 325-mile regional railroad powerhouse ...
Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United States had been booming. Between 1866 and 1873, 35,000 miles of new track were laid across the country.
Railroad boss Keith Creel drove a shiny ceremonial ... first at Canadian National Railway then at its in-country rival. Creel ...
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Why do railroads use catenary?
When you think about electrified rail lines today, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amtrak's Northeast Corridor ...
People were no longer dependent on horse-drawn carriages and natural waterways to move across the country. The rapid spread of railroads made the movement of both goods and people more efficient ...
Sparta residents have been fighting to keep their land, but a judge rules it can be seized by a railroad that's run by an ...
"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...