Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental railroad ... and cabinet work for the use of the railroad offices and buildings along the track. In the forging and casting ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... July: Casement crews add 60 miles of track to bring the Union Pacific line to the 100 mile ...

There is an iconic photograph depicting the Golden Spike ceremony that marked the completion of America’s Transcontinental ...

As the Transcontinental Railroad knit the East Coast to the West Coast, the stories of those who worked on and died for it often went untold. The exhibition "The Other Side of the Tracks" at 516 Arts ...

Unfortunately, the Transcontinental Railroad had a negative impact on the Indians of the Plains. In spite of the railroad passing through Indian Territory, they were forced to move. Seeing as workers ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

You can also track where the Big Boy is on its journey ... one-way trip will travel along the original route of the transcontinental railroad in dome passenger cars — through Donner Summit ...

The transcontinental railroad was joined with the driving of a ceremonial last gold spike in the tracks on May 10, 1869, in Promontory Point, Utah. The Panama Canal was completed across the ...

A number of years ago the two of us flew to Denver, Colorado, to catch Amtrak’s California Zephyr as it headed west. The ...

One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...

The Big Boy public viewing event will be held in Sparks across from the Nugget Casino Resort on Nugget Avenue near the railroad tracks on ... 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad ...