Main Street Station and Trainshed

Main Street Station is an ornate and imposing five-story building with a steep hipped roof and a clock tower at its southwest corner. Regarded as one of Richmond’s most renowned buildings since its opening day in 1901, the depot is ...

Trains and Canneries

Historic Cannery Row

The railroad

A major landmark in the history of the Monterey Peninsula was the Southern Pacific Railroad. Built in 1880, the rail line was intended to bring tourism to this scenic area. In addition to transporting tourists, however, it ...

National Historic Landmark-Reading Terminal and Trainshed

National Historic Landmark- Reading Terminal and Trainshed

Completed in 1893, this, the largest single-span (259 feet by 8 inch), arched-roof trainshed in the world, is a monument in the history of engineering.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

Image courtesy Library ...

National Historic Landmark - Harrisburg Station and Trainshed

National Historic Landmark - Harrisburg Station and Trainshed

With its passenger station and two train sheds, the Harrisburg Station is the most important structure remaining from the years when the city was a major stop along the Main Line of the ...

Steamboats, Trains, and Barges

The Mississippi River has long been a major artery for trade and transportation.

For thousands of years, Indians traveled on the river by canoe. By the 1850s, rivertowns like Hastings boomed as steamboats brought settlers into the region. The steamboat era ...

Electric Trains on the W&OD

Electrification arrived in 1912, after the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad and the Southern Railway’s Bluemont Branch were consolidated into the Washington & Old Dominion Railway. The new owners brought modern interurban trolley cars. Wire strung above the tracks ...

The Burlington Zephyrs / Articulated Trains

The Burlington Zephyrs

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy introduced the three-car Zephyr, the first in a series of lightweight stainless steel streamliners, in 1934. The Zephyr (later called Pioneer Zephyr) captured national attention with an initial Denver-Chicago run of 13 hours, ...

Trains

At first the railroads were individually owned. After the Civil War the Southern Railway company turned them into one large system. This made Greenville easily accessible from Atlanta to New York.

Vardry McBee lured early railroad lines to Greenville.

The Greenville & ...

Turning the Trains

From 1856 to 1971, Folsom was a railroad town. For most of those years, the Folsom depot was the last stop from Sacramento.

Before the trains could return to Sacramento, the locomotives had to be turned around. Until 1913, they rotated ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Trail Follows the Trains

…and Historians Trace the History along the Trail.

When the Milwaukee Road abandoned its route over the Bitterroot Mountains, salvage companies stripped the line of all the rails, ties, signals, posts and everything else of value. The small fragments left behind ...