The legislation establishes the Interstate Commerce Commission to control aspects of the railroad industry, the first in America to be subject to regulation by a federal government agency.

"One Hundred Years of Railroad Development" is a historical film produced by the Eastman Kodak Company that celebrates a century of American railroad progress. Filmed at the Baltimore & Ohio ...

The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage. The World Grew Smaller One day later, the first ...

All along its 6,543 miles of track between Chicago and New Orleans, the same tumult of bells and whistles broke loose on the “Main Line of Mid-America ... for the railroad was first advanced ...