Today, the Midland Railroad Tunnels offer a glimpse into a time when trains were king and mountain travel was tough. Whether you love history or just enjoy a good roadside stop, these tunnels are ...

Though cars can drive over railroad tracks without stopping, buses of all kinds have had to stop there for over eight decades ...

But unlike many such monikers elsewhere for short-cuts or straight-track segments, this one had an ancestor with that actual name. The Michigan Air Line Railroad was planned to link the Canada ...

Because of this feeling, local towns usually provided land, depot grounds, and sometimes substantial amounts of cash to induce railroads to build tracks to their village or city. Manistee developed at ...

The Calumet River Underground Railroad Project was renamed the Midwest Underground Railroad Network and now has a ...

This historic town in Michigan is endlessly charming, and it offers a perfect mix of small-town shopping and dining and ...

North and South,” a follow-up to his first book called “Railroads and Railroaders: East and West.” The books feature the history of lines that operated in Central Pennsylvania.

Back sometime in the late 1980s, when I was a high school student we had a history class that I’m pretty sure was mandatory class for every student. It was Michigan history. Way back then ...

The Lexington Group for Transportation History has announced the establishment of the H. Roger Grant Award for outstanding scholarship in railroad history. The $5,000 award, made possible through ...

Officials at Cincinnati's Freedom Center learned last week that the history they tell about the Underground Railroad conflicts with a revised version favored by the Trump administration.