In reporting on emerging science for 180 years, Scientific American has published straight accounts that were considered ...

For well over a century, copper mines and their structures dotted the landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I was born there and several generations of my family worked in the mines. The last one ...

The Virginia V served the West Pass from 1922 to 1931, making one 70-mile roundtrip from Tacoma to Seattle each day and ...

The Illinois Railway Museum isn’t just big—it’s the largest railway museum in America, and it makes most other museums look like static dioramas by comparison. When you first arrive at this sprawling ...

Located near the tiny community of Whitethorn in Mendocino County, Sinkyone Wilderness State Park represents California in its most primal, untamed form – the way it looked before highways, tech ...

Last-minute changes to the design of the $300 million redevelopment have been slammed by the National Trust and the City of ...

ERIC ANNIS OF Brattleboro docks his steamboat at River’s Edge Cottages and RV Park in Ferrisburgh after a day of battling the ...

The diesel-electric locomotive has been a mainstay of freight railroads and many passenger railroads for over a century. These locomotives have proven to have a great mix of power, fuel economy, and ...