Forgotten history of Ellicott City & Howard County MD

During the early days of railroad building, various materials were used to make the rails, including wood, stone or iron.

The first ride of a carload of dignitaries behind the Cooper steam engine was on August 28, 1830 from Baltimore to Ellicott mills on the Ba...

Ross Winans ( 1796-1877) was born in NJ and moved to Md in the late 1820s as the B&O railroad was starting. He invented the friction wh...

Did Peter Cooper's steam locomotive "Tom Thumb" race a horse drawn train car, as told by John Latrobe years later?  He said C...