To commemorate 200 years of American rail in 2027, the B&O Railroad Museum has launched the website Americanrail200.org. This ...

America’s railroads once connected towns, industries, and dreams from coast to coast - and their legacy still rumbles through history. Across the country, remarkable train museums preserve that golden ...

American history has always been made of the railway. It is a means of transportation and a source of economic growth, and of ...

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 ...

INSIDE THE B AND O RAILROAD MUSEUM, YOU’LL FIND CENTURIES WORTH OF RAILROAD HISTORY. SO MUCH OF IT IS ALSO BLACK HISTORY. AS WE GEAR UP FOR OUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2027, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THAT BLACK ...

Barbara Stanwyck in a still from the 1939 Cecil B. DeMille movie, “Union Pacific.” (Barbara Stanwyck papers, American Heritage Center) The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming ...

Silkroad Ensemble brings the program to Rogers Convention Center at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12. "If you would've asked me what I knew about the American railroad before I did this project, I would have a ...

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 ...