Southwest did something unusual. It inaugurated not one or two but six West Coast routes from Baltimore,the carrier's ...

But some of their family members say their contributions have been forgotten. The first Transcontinental Railroad was finished officially in 1869, and it connected the western and eastern United ...

May 10 — the 156th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, the challenging construction which owes much to the hard work of Chinese immigrants. The press conference ...

The Great American Rail-Trail will cross the entire country when completed, but one of the most epic sections has already opened in Washington ... on Abe’s 1860s transcontinental railroad.

The Southern route came through our area, and ultimately became the best all-around prospect for a transcontinental railroad ... were compiled and analyzed in Washington, many came to the ...

GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Despite the iconic image of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad that ... to bring the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads together. While ...

Despite the iconic image of the completion of the Transcontinental ... the railroad grade that Chinese and Irish workers would follow with the ties and tracks needed to bring 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 ongoing production is meant to illuminate the plights of immigrants working along the Transcontinental Railroad, telling the stories of their struggles in 19th-century America. “With ...

“We know that once you put a line on the map ... of the transcontinental railroad, as the right time to advertise their ambitions: a national trail, snaking through Washington, D.C., and ...

100 years ago, it was quite common to take a train from one city to the next and one of the most pivotal moments in American history was when the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

In 1869, over a decade before President Cleveland assumed office, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads inaugurated the nation’s transcontinental railroad ... If Americans were used to ...