EXTENSION ACTIVITY: Students can compare and contrast the Chinese worker experience building the transcontinental railroad with another immigrant group experience. Students could do more research into ...

C&NW No. 1385 returns to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. Homecoming leads toward home stretch to prep the 4-6-0 for ...

For the first time in more than four decades, an Alco PA locomotive has hauled a passenger train in the United States.

They also guarded the building of the first transcontinental railroad 1867-1869.