The Colebrookdale Railroad in Boyertown, Pennsylvania has been quietly offering storybook train journeys while most of us ...

Some towns evolve with the times, and then there’s Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, which apparently decided the 1970s were peak civilization and just stopped there. This Centre County gem is what happens ...

This unique steak restaurant had a moment in the 1970s and 1980s and had locations across the U.S. and Canada. Those ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: VisitBN and its community partners met last week at the McLean County Museum of History to lay out plans for celebrating the centennial of Route 66 this year. In conjunction with that, ...

There's a reason why Gen Xers, the kids who largely grew up in the 1970s, are coined the "latchkey" generation, they were parentified and expected to navigate life largely on their own. With both ...

In late 1967, a young Nicaraguan American UCLA graduate named Patrick Arguello wrote to a friend about the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The insurgent leader had been killed in Bolivia by ...

The math is bothering me on merging railroads. Stick with me for a moment. If Railroad A has 100 miles of track capacity, and Railroad B has 100 miles of track capacity, then combined, the two have a ...

Human errors and track defects caused more than 3,000 rail accidents over the last decade, killing 23 people and injuring nearly 1,200. Yet federal railroad regulators failed to implement most of the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches and smog ...

The historian A.J.P. Taylor once quipped that the only thing people learn from the mistakes of the past is how to make new mistakes. But there are nevertheless many lessons to be learned if you look ...