A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio – Growing up on Substation Road, young Stephen Hambley became interested in history and the stories of the interurban railway, whose tracks ran down his street many years ago. For many ...

IN March, 1913, Congress passed a law providing that the Interstate Commerce Commission should begin within sixty days to make a valuation of all the railways of the United States. The Commission has ...

Dan Snow looks at how, from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century, railways developed into the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Dan Snow traces the development ...

It's taken nearly 50 years for a rail system to reconnect Los Angeles to Pasadena. In light of the re-opening of the route, Larry Mantle explores the history of rail transportation in Southern ...

NASHUA – For almost 40 years, the city of Nashua has been without passenger rail service. While there has been a strong push supporting the Capitol Corridor project that would connect the Gate City to ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The largest public works project in state history almost derailed several times over everything from cost to politics — but those committed to its purpose got it back on track time ...

When the first train in India set off in 1853 from Bombay to Thane, pulled by three steam locomotives named Sahib, Sindh and Sultan, it covered just 34 km but ignited a transport revolution. In the ...