“They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob.” Thus began the song that became the anthem of the Great Depression. It was about an unemployed construction worker and WWI ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just after Interstate 40 climbs the Blue Ridge Mountains into Buncombe County, it passes over a 147-year-old railroad tunnel that ...

CHESAPEAKE — City leaders are pursuing grant funding from the state to build an overpass bridge for the Norfolk Portsmouth Beltline Railroad on Freeman Avenue in South Norfolk. At its meeting this ...

THE DETAILS ON THIS. BAILEY. YEAH, GUYS, IT’S BEEN SINCE 2002 THAT THEY’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROJECT. AND NOW, 20 YEARS LATER, IT IS FINALLY COMING TO FRUITION. THE RAILROAD MUSEUM OF ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. NC used prison labor, mostly Black men (and some women), to first build Swannanoa Tunnel About 3,000–3,500 inmates worked the ...