For decades in the 19th century, thousands of escaped slaves sought freedom using the so-called Underground Railroad, trying to reach northern states and Canada. In Natick, Edward Walcott was a well ...

The region's waters were a common means of escape from slavery, in addition to land-based networks of the Underground Railroad.

INSIDE THE B AND O RAILROAD MUSEUM, YOU’LL FIND CENTURIES WORTH OF RAILROAD HISTORY. SO MUCH OF IT IS ALSO BLACK HISTORY. AS WE GEAR UP FOR OUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2027, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THAT BLACK ...

Illinois Central 440 locomotive No. 2117 at Rantoul. Date unknown. Illinois Central locomotive No. 442 passing the abandoned Sabina depot in southeast McLean County sometime in the 1940s. Mike Sypult ...