A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...

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?

Historic wartime steam locomotive 35005 Canadian Pacific has triumphantly returned to The Watercress Line following an ...

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 ...

Northern has told its conductors working on the new Northumberland Line how to pronounce the name of Newsham station. When conductors make announcements, they will say that the train is approaching ...

Northern Railway is operating more than 400 special trains for smooth travel of passengers ahead of the Holi festival. Talking to media in New Delhi today, Chief Public Relations Officer of Northern ...

These railway stocks aren’t going anywhere, but while one offers more stability, the other offers more growth potential. Looking at recent earnings, Canadian Pacific Kansas City posted strong ...

A holiday crowd appeared outside the Baltimore & Ohio’s railroad bus service station in Manhattan on Nov. 22, 1951. Albert Covolo, George W. Hamlin collection There are standard-gauge tracks close by, ...

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.