While we all brag about how fast social media travels, it wasn’t long ago when the fastest communication were wires strewn across the county. There were attempts as early as 1826 to create the ...

In the mid-1850s, Bloomington found itself hurtling into the machine age. The first railroads arrived in May and October of 1853 (the Illinois Central and what would become the Chicago & Alton ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — To reach one of China’s last telegraph stations, Thomas Yang spent 18 hours crossing three provinces on one slow train. Just to send a message that would travel even slower.

Two houses on E. King and a house on E. Main recently reminded this author of a Lancaster civic leader who has almost been forgotten. He was 18 years of age when he decided to become a “railroad man,” ...