Shortly after, a first board of directors meeting was held. With a firm supporting organization and a drive to complete the railroad to receive the promised land from the St, Mary’s Canal and Mineral ...

settlers were transported by a technological advance that changed the face of America: the railroad. Railways would eventually cross both country and continent, linking the Atlantic and Pacific ...

The rise and fall of the American railroad has been the subject ... engaging program, “Early Railroads in the Chartiers Valley.” The story begins in 1830, when only four railroads existed ...

EDITORS—The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN stands deservedly high ... friends of the canal are contradictory when they ask a tax on railroads for the benefit of this canal, and " their logic and sense ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage. The World Grew Smaller One day later, the first ...

These fun and fact-filled documentaries span the history and development of the railroad industry, from the building of the first trans-continental line to the height of steam engine operations ...

Nearly 150 years after the Golden Spike in Promontory Summit, Utah, completed this nation’s first transcontinental railroad, America’s freight railroad industry remains an emblem of innovation ...