A railway historian says he believes the traditional semaphore signals removed from a rural railway station could have been the last in use in the entire Eastern region. The wooden signals were ...

Do you ever wonder why our stoplights designate red as stop and green as go? Me too. In fact, it was my daughter’s question on this very matter that inspired me to do some historic research. In the ...

Tucson native Jim Staggs has a simple wish for his 80th birthday, on March 19: “I want to be remembered as a retired railroad man,” he declares. From 1947 to 1950, Staggs worked for the Southern ...