American railroading began in the Capital District. On December 28, 1825, Schenectady County native (Duanesburg) George Featherstonhaugh (pronounced fen-shaw) ran a newspaper notice announcing the ...

Construction began in August 1830 and the railroad opened September 24, 1831, on a 16-mile route between Albany and Schenectady through ... mile Croton Aqueduct (New York City’s water supply ...

Rensselaer officials envision a future of new residences and jobs that puts environmental harm away in the past.

The two businesses announced Tuesday joined 14 new ones that have established Grand Central Terminal locations this year ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...

Construction work in Amtrak’s East River Tunnels will indefinitely sideline the United Railroad Historical Society’s Hudson ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A man who helped lead an MS-13 clique in New York pleaded guilty Tuesday ... was discovered dead in a wooded area near some railroad tracks five months after leaving ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600 ...

In view of the many changes that the New York Central's terminal has undergone in the course of its history, people are asking, quite naturally, whether the great railroad station that is open to ...