On occasion General Jack was known to complete mind-boggling stretches of much greater length. Working on the Railroad Pay ... counterparts on the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific men had ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the Sierra Nevada to its historic 1869 meeting with the Union Pacific. The “silent spikes ...

Scottish mechanical engineer James Watt patents his design for the first practical steam engine, paving the way for the mechanized production of the Industrial Revolution. Asa Whitney presents a ...

By Shirley L NgThe Takeaways Recognition of Chinese Immigrants’ Contributions: Brooklyn Councilmember Susan Zhang ...

Union Pacific and BNSF Railway trains battle gravity and curvature as they wind their way up and down the former Southern ...

Grant received a telegram reading: “The last rail is laid, the last spike is driven, the Pacific railroad is completed ... the two railroads, the Union and the Central Pacific, which Leland ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBS News) - Union Pacific Railroad’s famed Big Boy locomotive made a stop in North Texas Thursday morning. Big Boy No. 4014’s Heartland of America Tour included a stop at ...