Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists. A hidden passageway linked to the Underground Railroad has been discovered inside a ...

Enslaved Africans with dreams of being free found safety in the heart of NYC. To the naked eye, the 4-story brick row house on East 4th Street is just another of the 19th-century buildings on a block ...

Small opening cut into floor at Merchant’s House Museum indicates site was probably used as ‘safe house’, experts say A landmark house in Manhattan preserved as a museum to New York’s 19th-century ...

Hidden inside a historic 19th century house on East Fourth Street in Manhattan is a secret sanctuary. Ever since the Merchant’s House Museum opened its doors to the public in 1936, visitors have lined ...

It speaks volumes that Jim Wright, the chairman of the Railroad Commission, makes news when he recuses himself from voting on a permit for a company he has a financial stake in. Such is the state of ...

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Model railroaders convene each year to celebrate their hobby. But this year they're wondering about the impact of tariffs on the foreign companies that make a lot of the products they collect. The ...

Firefighters battled a large railroad tie fire in Dunnellon, Florida on February 1. The burning ties, treated with creosote, produced heavy, irritating smoke, prompting officials to issue a health ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Facing what they believe is increased animus toward their operation, the Catskill Mountain Railroad says it’s eyeing the possibility of pulling up stakes in Ulster County. Railroad ...

TOLEDO, Oregon — A Portland & Western Railroad trestle bridge over the Olalla Slough near the Oregon coast was damaged in a derailment early Wednesday, and the stalled freight train impacted nearby ...

To make money on its proposed cross-country railroad, Union Pacific plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side where workers still throw switches by hand ...

The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two of their biggest unions that represent more than half their workers because they're worried ...