In the old days, when an accident had a rail line shut down, it was time to call the big hook, rugged cranes built for the biggest chores in the rail industry. The driving wheels of a ...

A crane left abandoned decades ago at the site of a bridge where trains once passed over marshlands on their way to the Jersey Shore recently collapsed into the back bay, and local officials aren’t ...

The town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, sits in Iowa’s southeast corner, in the middle of gently rolling fields of corn and soybeans. Over the recent Labor Day weekend, its normal population of about 9,000 ...

Opened in 1870 by John W. Flansburgh as a manufactory of wooden boxes for Crane & Co., the busy Dalton shop had a long and storied history until it was ...