From the late 1800s through the 1920s, many of the US's railway barons built grand train ... once-largely rural nation to a coast-to-coast collection of cities. As automobiles and, later, planes ...

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A century after joining the Field Museum’s collection, the Tsavo lions remain one of the museum's most important displays.

Review of rail passenger service between Chicago and Florida including the return of the Amtrak Floridian in 2024 ...

Normally, when you go to a barber shop, you ask them to take some hair off the top. Now, a new El Paso museum, looking to ...

A heritage railway and working museum said it hoped a visit by the legendary Flying Scotsman locomotive would give its finances a boost. The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) said next month's appearance ...

Researchers used the Field Museum's snake collection to help discover that what they thought was one species making up king cobras is actually four. They noticed differences in bands — one specimen ...

Now, officials are studying another option that could be considerably less costly. The option would use the Illinois Railway, which runs through downtown Oswego, Yorkville and Montgomery. “There is a ...

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...