The New York Central System was a vast and legendary railroad, connecting the East Coast to the Mississippi River. A key ...

Led by robust Northeast Regional gains offsetting fewer Acela frequencies, Amtrak carried nearly 3.5 million passengers ...

Running a marathon is an intense challenge. Finding the best marathons for beginners, where you can also vacation before and ...

When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...

You’ll see backyards, forest preserves, and wetlands all dressed in autumn hues as the train heads north. The Chain O’Lakes ...

Lake Michigan is home to many lakeside destinations and this little treat between Chicago and Grand Rapids has everything you want and then some.

The gales of November bent the old box elder tree in our backyard. Little Bay de Noc churned and splashed not far from our house. It is 1975 and Escanaba’s north shore stockpiles tons of iron ore ...

These 50 golf courses just missed out on our latest ranking of the Top 100 Courses in the World - but are still worthy of ...

The romance of rail travel never quite disappeared from American culture. While highways and airports came to dominate the landscape, something about the steady rhythm of a train cutting through ...

My husband and I live on 2.5 rural acres that he bought before we were married. For less than the present price of most new vehicles, he got land that ...

Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay.