Union Pacific Railroad celebrated its 163rd birthday today in the hometown of its famed founder – President Abraham Lincoln – ...

To understand Seattle’s past and present — what makes this city special and why — you have to understand the story of the downtown waterfront.

A photographic history of train travel over the decades, from vintage railroad cars to the groundbreaking trains and ...

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 ...

You can get in touch with John by emailing j.feng@newsweek.com Brazil and China have signed an agreement to launch a ...

A majority of railroad shippers would support a transcontinental merger so long as it included concessions such as full ...

Anyone attending the Durham Museum south of Omaha’s Old Market will be near the one-mile marker for the Union Pacific ...

“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.

If a transcontinental rail merger is proposed — as has been a subject of speculation in recent months — it would be up to the ...

The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route between NYC and L.A.

Although we take it for granted, one of Vancouver’s greatest advantages is that it lies at the end of a transcontinental railroad. The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway was completed in 1908 ...