From railroad tycoons to golden fields, the origins of each county’s name reveal the region’s political, cultural and ...

In March 1867, the United States had bought Alaska leaving British Columbia hemmed in by the Americans to the north and south ... Canada would build a railway to the Pacific if British Columbia ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s ... of Ghosts of Gold Mountain, a groundbreaking history of Chinese railroad workers by Stanford ...

As part of an epic journey from the southernmost to the northernmost train station in the U.S., this adventure takes you ...

It’s a bridge, both literally and figuratively. Completed March 8, 1871, The railroad bridge across the Mississippi River in Brainerd connected the Great Lakes to the western portion of the U.S ...

Reading & Northern's entrepreneurial owner has built castoff Pennsylvania lines into 325-mile regional railroad powerhouse ...

The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads vied to establish routes across the territory from western Iowa to northern California ... labored eastward in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada ...

Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad had a strong year in 2024 with increased ridership numbers and the opening of a new regional rail station. 2023 saw over 322,000 guests ride with Reading ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the ... and pulled forward by rumors of the Gum Sham, the Mountain of Gold, that awaited them across the ocean.