The U.S. freight rail industry, which owns and maintains some 140,000 miles of track and plays a critical role moving goods, maintains a deep and storied history with the military and its people. To ...

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Close your eyes and picture this. It’s Christmas morning in the 1970’s and you’re five years old. The morning light begins to crest through your window and you burst from your bed and ...

Coastal erosion in Del Mar and a slow-moving landslide in San Clemente threaten the only rail connection to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and Naval Base San Diego, the principal home of the Pacific ...

FORT TOTTEN --Great Plains military forts originally were constructed to protect railroads--and the men who built them--as the railroads spread across the frontier, according to Steve Reidburn, the ...

Many armies have unique organizations. France has its Foreign Legion, America has that mini-army known as the Marine Corps—and Russia has its Railroad Troops. Charged with building and maintaining ...