Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane September 24, 2018 2017-10-01T18:00:56-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6d3/20171001180243003_hd.jpgTransportation curator Matt ...

In 1828 the Sellers of Cardington, Upper Darby, had two separate workshops. One was the “iron works.” Evidently the “iron works” shop was the site where textile manufacturing was done; for the making ...

on the roof of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum’s landmark roundhouse, whose domed cupola had soared 122 feet above the intersection of Pratt and Poppleton Streets since 1884. Generations of ...

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The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, founded in 1921, is the first organization to focus on railroad history. Its purpose is to promote research, writing, and public knowledge about all ...

On this day 205 years ago, British inventor George Stephenson unveiled his design for the first ever functional steam-powered locomotive. In 1814, Ludwig von Beethoven premiered his 8th Symphony in F.

The location of Vermont’s early railroads helped determine where communities formed. Above, a shunting engine, used to move train cars within a rail yard, sits in the rail yard at Island Pond in 1902.

The photo with this column, showing a pair of railroad engines that have collided, is sometimes labeled "The Hazards of Rail Traffic." But all is not as it seems. The first clue is the large crowd of ...