“The construction of the Transcontinental (Railroad) was the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century, and I’m very proud to have been a part of it,” Dodge said. “The dream of mine ...

Most American railroads were private ventures. But Trojans had their hands in a bigger venture, the Transcontinental Railroad. Theodore Judah was the chief engineer of the Central Pacific and ...

The Summit Tunnel Conservation Association (STCA) is pleased to announce that on December 13, 2024, Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, designated the 1867-68 encampment area of the ...

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed 150 years ago, in 1869. In 1800s America, some saw the railroad as a symbol of modernity and national progress. For others, however, the Transcontinental ...

With that one act, Stanford marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad. This 1877 photo depicts Chinese laborers in Secret Town, working on the transcontinental railroad across the ...

When you think about the building of the transcontinental ... railroad by hand. You wouldn’t know that a tragic love story led to the railroad that connected the East and West coasts for the first ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A43-foot-tall Golden Spike that was brought to Utah on Monday will honor tens of thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad. The nearly 8,000-pound ...