The Best Friend of Charleston is widely considered the first steam-powered railroad locomotive built entirely in the United States for revenue service.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) is a Division of the Rail Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and also the nation’s oldest labor union.
The California High-Speed Rail project, managed by the California High-Speed Rail Authority, is designed to connect major urban areas across California, significantly reducing intercity travel times.
In the early morning of April 30, 1900, John Luther “Casey” Jones, filling in for a sick engineer, sat behind the throttle of engine No. 382, pulling the Cannonball Express.
