Tag: railroad

Seven-year-old Willie Linsky was playing near his Brooklyn home in 1908 when something on the opposite side of the railroad tracks caught his attention. The…

In 1914, a man walking along the Omaha railroad tracks near Sioux Falls made a gruesome discovery. M. Petit was on his way into the…

A freight car can feel like a forgotten place, a dark wooden box shunted from one track to another, carrying no one’s attention with it….

Railroad accidents were extremely common in the 1800s and early 1900s. Every day, newspapers printed lists of accidents that happened on the railroads. Most of…