At an elevation of about 2,400 feet, Colfax occupies that perfect sweet spot in the foothills—high enough for occasional winter snow that transforms the town into a living snow globe, but low enough ...

C&NW No. 1385’s Homecoming. Mid-Continent Railway Museum is in the home stretch to prep the 4-6-0 for the 2026 operating ...

Although today it is nearly universally forgotten, a segment/connection of the Oregon Trail ran through Lancaster County and ...

You can get in touch with John by emailing j.feng@newsweek.com Brazil and China have signed an agreement to launch a ...

First Union Pacific Rail laid in Omaha.

There has been much talk lately about increasing participation by the private sector when it comes to running passenger ...

The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route ...

Truckee, California might just be that hidden gem you’ve been overlooking – a Sierra Nevada mountain town where history meets ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

In 1925, Lincoln Trail, also known as the Midland Trail, in O’Fallon, Illinois, was selected for use as a transcontinental roadway by the U.S. government.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad from its inception in 1825 until the early 1860s ...