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 ...

How did Stanford become so incredibly wealthy? The Southern Pacific Railroad was headed by Stanford from 1868 to 1890, and later merged with the Central Pacific Railroad. The election of 1885 brought ...

Great Lakes Central Railroad's lines run north from Ann Arbor to Cadillac, with branches to Thompsonville, Traverse City and ...

Short line holding company Watco is adding another railroad to its stable: Great Lakes Central, the operator of 420 miles of ...

The Leviathan locomotive was a steam locomotive built in 1838 by Robert Stephenson and Company. It was built for the Great Western Railway and was one of the largest locomotives of its time, measuring ...

crews from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met at desolate Promontory Summit, in northern Utah, and completed the Transcontinental Railroad. As the famous “Golden Spike” was ...

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 ...