LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - This week’s Mark in Texas History takes a look at the power of transportation, especially by train. The Angelina and Neches River Railroad was a key part of developing the City ...

I think it is impossible to exaggerate the historical consequences and impact of railroads on United States history. Their spread and building played a large role in making the U.S. an actual “nation” ...

Mission San José has been added to the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, along with 18 other U.S. sites, including one in the Rio Grande Valley. The park ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - History shows lots of early Texas towns were transformed by the arrival of the railroads. And one East Texas town went to extremes to “get in the loop.” Railroads had a big ...

I think it is impossible to exaggerate the historical consequences and impact of railroads on United States history. Their spread and building played a large role in making the U.S. an actual “nation” ...

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 ...

This 1931 photo of the construction site of the United States Post Office in Fort Worth (foreground) shows the smaller Railway Express building next to the larger T&P railroad station. Courtesy ...

Two teens were killed and one was injured at a railroad crossing in Harrisburg, Chronicle readers learned on this day in 1929. The three were heading north on Broadway the evening of Aug. 29 when they ...

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