On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in ... The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage.

Union Pacific has marked Presidents Day by announcing plans for a locomotive to honor the nation’s 16th president, Abraham ...

150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory photograph taken after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, two mighty locomotives ...

The paint scheme of locomotive No. 1616 will feature “the unique colors of Lincoln’s era,” UP (NYSE: UNP) said in a press release. It also honors steam locomotive No. 119, one of the two engines ...

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

A bronze plaque identifies it as a re-creation of the “Laurel Tie,” the ceremonial final crossbeam laid in Utah to complete the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. That original beam of laurel ...

Between 1869-1894, five transcontinental railroads ... racing to meet the Union Pacific and complete the first transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials drive the ...