The funding means motorists on the Southern Bridge won't have to stop for train traffic. The budget provision still needs to ...

In the rolling hills of Tuscarawas County sits a place where train whistles echo through history and time seems to slow to the rhythmic clack of wheels on rails – welcome to Dennison, Ohio, where ...

Yearning to explore a town that’s not only scenic but welcoming? This California mountain gem in the Sierra Nevada might be the perfect option.

Northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe area will celebrate America's 249th birthday with sports, concerts and more than a dozen ...

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

A search party found the crime scene on the outskirts of Jarbidge, a gold-rush town of 1,500. They discovered that $3,000 was missing (a little over $80,000 in today's dollars).

A train carrying $41,800 in gold pieces and $8,800 in silver bars — worth well over $1 million in today’s dollars — left Oakland for Ogden, Utah, on Nov. 4, 1870.

He was captain of a party of pioneers that opened up what is now known as Donner Pass. Yes, THAT Donner Pass, nine miles west of Truckee, where desperate pioneers ATE each other. The Donner Party, it ...

The Alaska Railroad has one to keep an eye on the slopes along the rail line between Anchorage and Seward, and Union Pacific maintains one on Donner Pass in California. In both instances, the ...

Folsom’s leading railroad historian, ... Judah would later settle on today’s route through Roseville and over Donner Pass. Apparently, Judah was a bit of a big-thinking eccentric.

Folsom’s leading railroad historian, ... Judah would later settle on today’s route through Roseville and over Donner Pass. Apparently, Judah was a bit of a big-thinking eccentric.

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks.. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb ...