While the Industrial Revolution transformed societies, it paved the way for the rise of railroad stations. As train travel ...

The “silent spikes,” as scholars have dubbed the nameless Chinese, had constituted the largest single work force in U.S. industry during the mid-19th century—only to be erased from the ...

Union Station, Penn Station— why do so many major train stations have the same few names? Hayley Glatter, Washington, D.C. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many railroad companies built ...