By 1865 there would be some 35,000 miles; in 1880, 93,000 miles. For now, in the 1850s, the railroads connected only a handful of major cities, and most lines did not connect to others.

When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the ... Front Matter Download XML Table of ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and ...

Our first railroad was about 1850," Allen said. "The very first locomotive that ever came into the city had to come down from Cleveland on the Ohio Canal to Dresden, floated down the river ...

At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved Black Americans via the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

During my high school years in the early 1960s, I purchased a copy of the fourth edition of this book for a mere three dollars. The volume proved to be a good investment for a young railfan with a ...