The unmoored figure of the hobo was a friction and foil for railroad companies. Summoning that tension today, through sound and sight, evokes conflicting impulses toward isolation and the desire ...

The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad became the first chartered railroad in NYS on April 17, 1826. Construction began in August 1830 and the railroad opened September 24, 1831, on a 16-mile route ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more ...

A local effort to seek a railroad overpass at Ash Road has just gained a $1 million grant to study options, thanks in part to a sorrowful plea from Franky Reeves Jr.’s family. He died at 4:30 ...

Brandon Bell / Getty Images Maybe it seems quaint that an industry associated with the taming of the West and the robber barons of the Gilded Age even survives today, but railroads remain a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad over a century ago will be on permanent display in Alaska for the first time after entities combined to ...

Oklahoma is getting a $1.2 million federal ... the beginning of a resolution to an ongoing problem. The Basin Road railroad crossing in Mannford has been in an issue for years and people living ...

DAVIS, Okla. (KTEN) — If you live in or have driven through Davis, odds are you've been forced to sit at the railroad crossing on Main Street for an extended period of time. "We have a passing ...

ROCKY HILL, N.J.—Jeff Bernardis had to keep the trains running on time. Perched at a bank of computer monitors, he relayed orders to the engineers of nearly a dozen trains ferrying oil, beer ...

(Vanessa Blanch/CBC) It's not hyperbolic to say that Canada was built on the railroads, or at least the promise of them. British Columbia joined confederation specifically on the promise of being ...