Rail travel has long captured the imagination of people, from the first transcontinental journeys in North America and Australia to groundbreaking British trains and incredible advancements by the ...

Amtrak’s new “NextGen Acela” trains have been billed as the dawn of high-speed rail in the US. Yet outdated tracks keep ...

The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming invites the public to the opening of “The West is Waiting: An ...

For decades, these colossal trains carried elephants, acrobats, and tents across America. They brought magic to every ...

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A moving train fills the frame of a shaky video. A ladder looms, and hands grip the rungs. A blur of movement, and you're inside an open train car piled with coal, trees whipping by on either side.