Here we profile 12 of the most famous railroad tycoons in the 1800s and early 1900s who helped shape the modern industry in ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called ...

PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah--On May 10, 1869, the extraordinary happened here. After crews from the Central Pacific Railroad had started in Sacramento, Calif., and laid 690 miles of track to the east ...

The six men organize themselves as the first Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. October: Having completed his survey of the Sierra Nevada, Judah returns to Washington ...

On May 10, 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ...

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Wildlife Prairie Park is celebrating the creation of America’s first transcontinental railroad with a “Train Day” event on ...