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Snowshed crews on the Central Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in the world”

Opening the mail route to California, the Butterfield coaches flew across the rugged, wild Southwest in twenty-five exhausting days

Single-track lines run by one-track minds gave the reformers of Boston their biggest cause since abolition

So long as it remained in public consciousness it was known as the Great Revere Disaster. Written or spoken it deserved the adjective, and the capitals. Worse railroad wrecks had happened before; worse were to come after.

John W. Garrett turned the pioneer Baltimore & Ohio into a great instrument for tapping the treasure of the West

The iron horses that built America are nearly all gathered on the other side of Jordan

It was the way they worked the cord and changed the steam pressure that made the whistle almost seem to talk.

For decades the private railroad car was the great symbol of wealth. Here is what it looked like in its heyday.

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