On 10th February 1926, Gdynia was officially granted city rights. This symbolic moment transformed a small fishing village ...

John Augustus Hulen occpies a singular place in the military and civic history of Texas, and particularly in the coastal ...

What is your favorite part of springtime in Washington? Nothing says spring quite like peaceful waterways and flowers blossoming. That said, in the Evergreen State, many of the best streams and blooms ...

The 13-mile Smoky Ridge Railroad (SMO) in Tennessee joined Watco’s short line network on Feb. 2. Pittsburg, Kans.-based Watco ...

Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...

Nationalisation is when something - such as a service, company or an entire industry - is brought under the control and ...

This week, a Springfield veteran who served his country during World War II, celebrated his 100th birthday. He is being ...

Basically the Russian railroad system was on borrowed time from the onset of sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine. Railroad coil bearings do wear out. Russia’s entire railroad system would have begun ...

Although the subway operated profitably during World War II, it became a money loser after the war." From "Lost Subways of ...

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway system, has proposed a high-speed line that would run just meters from the Nazi ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

MARGRATEN, Netherlands — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have ...