Cannonball

In affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution, the Southern Museum of Civil War  and Locomotive History,

A traveler calling himself “P.M.” visiting Baltimore in the early winter of 1850 sent back

On April 21, 1865, in a cold, steady spring rain, a funeral train carrying the

Parkersburg, West Virginia, is located at the confluence of the Ohio River and  the Little

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, located in Strasburg in east-central Lancaster County, has the largest

The Northern Central Railway suffered significant damage during the June 1863 Confederate raid into York

In mid-November 1863, trainloads of visitors passed through tiny Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania, where the north-south

Here is the third and final installment of the series of Cannonball blog posts on

Here is Part 2 of a series of photographs taken by Scott Mingus in September2011

Each year for my birthday each of my three kids spends time with me, with