Railroads
   Massachusetts Rail Road (1849)
   A New Railroad (VA, 1861)
   Speed of Railways (1857)
   Ruction on Train (1906)
   American Locomotives (1839)

   Rail Crashes & Disasters
     Sawyer’s Bay Railway Accident (New Zealand) (1902)

   Atmospheric Railway
     Death Blow of the Atmospheric Railway (1848)
     Obituary: The Atmospheric Railway (1848)

Railroad / Railway Companies

   Alexandria, Loudon & Hampshire Railroad (US)
     Reconnoitering the Loudon and Hampshire Railroad (1861)

   Elkton and Oxford Railroad (US)
     Elkton and Oxford Railroad (1873)

   Northern Central Railroad (US)
     Railroad  Accidents (1860)

   South Devon Railway (UK)
     Death Blow of the Atmospheric Railway (1848)

   West Cornwall Railway (UK)
     Engineer's Report (1852)

Recipes & Cookery
   Cranberry Pudding (1844)

Rhode Island (State of)
   His Gold Stars Will Be Worn on Thursday (906)

Rodgers, John (American Navy officer, 1772-1838)
   Death of Commodore Rogers (1838)

Roosevelt, Theodore (American Politician, 1858-1919)
   Suffragette Causes Trouble for Roosevelt (1912)

Ruffin, Edmund (American Agriculturalist and Secessionist, 1794-1865)
   Beauregard, Davis, and Ruffin (1861)

Ruggles, Edward S. (Confederate agent, Navy & Army officer, 1843-1919)
   Arrest of a Rebel Bearer of Dispatches in New York (1861)

Rum
    Encouragement for the Rum Trade (1846)