The tiny upstart Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, known as the L.A. & I, was embroiled in a complex and intense race in January 1875, with the mighty Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first ...

Trains were the Teslas of the 1800s. Even after the wonder technology had been through multiple booms, busts and bankruptcies, railroads still made up more than half of U.S. market capitalization at ...

Richard White receives funding from Stanford Humanities Center, Huntington Library. They gave me money but neither is connected to this subject. Late 19th-century Americans loved railroads, which ...

OLD FORT - As the two Norfolk Southern locomotives tug dozens of rail cars up the mountain through the town's famous section of track called "the Loops," there is no indication the train is passing ...