The end of World War II was days away as a train full of military servicemen and women on the way were killed in horrific train collision on the prairie outside Michigan, North Dakota.

BROCKET, N.D. - It was a warm, sunny day on Aug. 9, 1945, when 20-year-old Marian Pederson and her parents boarded the Great Northern Railway's Empire Builder in Grand Forks. Heading back home to ...

In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended ...

Aug. 1—MICHIGAN, N.D. — On a yellowed piece of newsprint, three young women are frozen mid-laughter with arms linked and faces aglow as they wade through a sea of confetti on Broadway in New York City ...