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The nation was torn apart by disastrous riots in a hundred cities and towns, with lasting results.
It was once as big as the fear of flying, and it helped show the way to psychotherapy and the modern treatment of traumatic stress.
IN THE 1870S, WEALTH FROM THE NORTH TRANSFORMED THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
. . . and the birth of the railroad revolution in America ... A mystery solved.
They are 30 years gone from our main lines, but, all across the country, steam locomotives are pulling trainloads of passengers into the past. A lifelong student of the great age of American railroad reveals some of the most impressive.
Consigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Garbage Run,” they fought their own war on the home front, and they helped shape a victory as surely as their brothers and husbands did overseas.
All the new lady brakemen on the Pennsylvania Railroad were put to work on what was officially known as the Jersey Coast Extra List.
Once the very heart of downtown St. Louis, Union Station has come through hard times to celebrate its 100th birthday, and ,even though the trains don’t pull in here anymore, it’s still an urban draw.
The steamship clerk of Pig’s Eye, Minnesota, built a railroad empire from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound
Long before his death, more than forty years ago, Jim Hill had become a legend in the American West. Whether lie was hero or villain matters little.
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