At 5 p.m., it finally began. Like boxers climbing into the ring, the two steam engines (each pulling a few boxcars filled with railroad ties) met at the collision site and touched cow-catchers.

Jim Fox can tell you why railroad engines have "cow catchers": He once was on a train when it plowed into some cows. Jim and his wife, Patty, spend their retirement days in Fargo, near Perham, Minn., ...

National Museum of American Art, 1990. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006. The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of ...

Back before streaming films on Netflix, before TV or radio or records or movies — in fact, before any electronic entertainment — folks took pleasure in the simple things in life. Like watching two ...