In the 1980s and 1990s, passenger trains were no longer a part of most travelers’ lives. But railroads rebounded economically, due to growth in rail shipment of freight containers, automobiles, coal, ...

The son of a section foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Rodgers went to work as a "water-boy" on the M&O at age 14. Many of his co-workers were African Americans who schooled Rodgers in the ...

It was taken when the Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, later the Pennsylvania ... Bretz took the photo, which shows immigrant and African American workers. It was made all the more ...

An estimated 125-300 workers died and were buried ... on the people who built the Transcontinental Railroad including Native Americans, African Americans, Irish, Chinese, Japanese and other ...