We’ve been in touch with train buff, map-lover, and Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society Mark Ovenden to learn more about his latest book Railway Maps of the World. Please tell us a bit about the ...

The Northern Pacific and the Milwaukee Road are just a few of the famous railroads that once served the Puget Sound Country as far back as the 1870s. And while the old lines merged to ultimately ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Dec. 17, 2015 announced the addition of the Rail Heritage Map to its online Railroad Map Depot created and maintained by the STB’s Office of Environmental ...

The teenagers riding the rails during the Great Depression accounted for 1/16 (250,000) of a jobless army that numbered four million. These itinerants crisscrossed the U.S. on the Pennsylvania, ...

Clear Track Ahead produces a map system that integrates railroad milepost locations with street addresses used to dispatch emergency ‘first responders’. The problem is: railroads and emergency centres ...