Railroads, if you ask me, were the most consequential economic and technological innovation in American history, and without a doubt were the most important component in aiding the expansion of ...
A photograph from the 1920s shows the SS Sicamous plying the chilly winter waters of Okanagan Lake near Okanagan Centre.
Bakersfield’s Sumner train station again is fighting for its life. It’s a fight worth winning. Meeting this month, City Council members agreed to extend only until June the city’s lease of the ...
The last words spoken by Arn Peeples in Train Dreams, the Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, ...
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One of the world's biggest locomotives was as long as a Boeing 747 and was powered by a coal-burning turbine that ate itself
The Union Pacific Railroad used to be obsessed with power. The railroad spent decades searching for and developing one locomotive to rule them all. This search resulted in icons like the Big Boy and ...
What it's like to ride the most legendary railways around the world—from the Scottish Highlands to the Peruvian Andes.
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