On October 19, 1885 the first train of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad (later a part of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad) arrived in Oberlin, Kansas. Oberlin was the end of a 77-... (more)
Do you ever wonder how some rail lines seem to avoid the documentation of the railroad photographer? Denver & Rio Grande Western's Provo Canyon Branch did a remarkable job of doing just that for m... (more)
Washington's Stevens Pass, named for John F. Stevens (who explored this area with C.F.B Haskell in the late 1880s in order to plot this rail line), is where the Great Northern Railroad crossed the... (more)