from USGS maps to Rand McNally atlases to railroad-specific history books, sometimes even railroad corporate engineering documents. When he later began using Adobe's Illustrator software, he mastered ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...

20th. Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United States had been booming. Between 1866 and 1873, 35,000 miles of new track were laid across the country.

Erin Kirkland In a city raised with the birth of its railroad system, it should come as no surprise that Anchorage's historic train depot marks the gateway to further Alaska adventures.