A rail-operated barge service that ferried rail cars between Cape Charles and Norfolk and Virginia Beach for more than 100 years will resume again this week. The barge service stopped a year ago ...

Maybe no one called them beautiful, but ever since the 1800s, squat, humble muscular barges humped lifeblood cargo from Albany to New York City and everywhere in between. Hardly on a romantic par with ...

The historic Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge Number 79, docked in Red Hook and sometimes seen getting tugged off the coast, is turning 100 years old next year—and with the anniversary will come a year of ...

Untapped Cities is an official blog ambassador for Partners in Preservation , a community-based initiative by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to raise awareness of ...

The only two options that freight trains have for accessing the east side of the Hudson River are to cross a bridge in Albany—140 painstaking miles North of New York City—or to ride a rail barge ...