Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...

A road bridge collapsed onto a railway in western Russia, derailing a passenger train and killing at least eight people, investigative and railway officials said. Initial reports blamed an explosion.

The Cape Flyer offers weekend train service from Boston to Cape Cod, starting May 23 and running through Labor Day. Stops include South Station, Braintree, Brockton, Lakeville, Wareham Village ...

In 1966, engineers at New York Central Railroad mounted two B-58 bomber jet engines onto a passenger railcar, creating the M-497 “Black Beetle.” It reached 183 mph—still the fastest speed ...

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea.

The theme for our January Editors' Photo Challenge was black-and-white street photography, one of the most frequently requested themes since we started our Editors' Photo Challenges last year.. We ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Well, if you simply haven’t gotten around to any of those duo-tone classics for fear that they’ll be boring, here are 32 great (and some not so old) black and white comedies that you should ...

Among the train projects underway with Biden-era funding: $16 billion in upgrades to the busy Northeast Corridor, the nation's most-traveled rail line, connecting Boston to Washington, D.C., via ...