The “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life” exhibition of The St. Louis Mercantile Library’s Barriger Railroad Collection will run through July 31 at The Grolier Club ...

The Society now has two narrow gauge freight cars from the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad being stored in Dolores. They are a block away from the museum, across from the bank, in a work yard ...

BEAVER LAKE — In a couple of nondescript gray buildings south of Plattsmouth near Beaver Lake, with nothing more than a yellow Union Pacific Plymouth Industrial Locomotive to advertise their contents, ...

People have passed by the rusting train cars and railroad equipment along Geigertown Road in Union Township and wondered why they were there. The collection was started almost 40 years ago by a teen ...

China from the dining cars of the past, collected by Bill and Judy Wimmer for the Wimmer Railroad Collection that is being donated to the Sarpy County Museum. An old handcart used in rail repair sits ...

LARAMIE, Wyo. - Jim Ehernberger, 88, has now been retired longer than his time working for the Union Pacific. Yet, Ehernberger still considers himself a railroad man. Over the years, he has amassed a ...

For those who don't remember (and that includes most of us), at one time, railroad news was consistently front-page news. And Michael Fowler has the pictures and newspaper clippings to prove it.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Originally collected by the National Museum of American History's Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering's reference collection. In 1978, ...