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The Fertilizer Route
The Fertilizer Route, more formally The Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad, featured 75 years ago in Trains Magazine was ...
More than 160 years after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, echoes of the Civil ...
Charles Bowdish, the nationally known miniaturist who created the miniature railroad at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, had another, less well-remembered side.
The debate has heated up in recent years, with some calling for the removal of Confederate monuments, while others argue they're an important part of our history.
Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...
Proposed high-speed rail map (Courtesy: Texas Central) The project was originally expected to be funded by private companies, but brought in Amtrak and federal dollars for development work as the ...