A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1924.

Sam Hill was a wealthy, happy-go-lucky eccentric millionaire and philanderer, which mixed oddly with his Quakerism. James J. Hill hired Sam Hill into the Northern Pacific Railroad legal department in ...

Passenger trains linked Napa with Suisun City and Vallejo a century ago. Could they make a 21st century comeback?

When Ingham resident Veronica Green gave her mother a story gift to capture her memories for her 80th birthday little did she ...

It was 1883 when the Northern Pacific Railroad showed up in Bozeman, Montana. That year was a transformative time for the ...

History is dotted with failed enterprises, especially failed railroads. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, as railroads began to crisscross the nation, hundreds of routes were proposed but ...

At the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th, a Liberal federal government, this one led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, went railway mad. If one transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific ...

Canadian National is party to several collective bargaining agreements with key unions, including the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. This leads to the threat of work stoppage during periods of ...

Tenkotte, PhD is Editor of the “Our Rich History” weekly series and Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). He can be contacted at [email protected]. Tenkotte also serves ...

FOR a bargain £25,000 you could own a magnificent piece of railway history: a derelict signal ... and he fell beneath its wheels. The Northern Echo the following day did not mince its words.

NEW HARTFORD — A meeting of the Utica and Mohawk Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 14, at the Zion Lutheran Church on the ...

Superior is certainly a central character in the drama that led to the first among literally billions of Gideon Bibles found in hotels and other establishments throughout the world. But my hometown is ...