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

A proposed private passenger train will make the Los Angeles to New York City trip in less than 72 hours – and carry ...

On May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed after nearly six years of construction, making travel and trade between the east and west coast easier than ever before. Take a ...

The centennial of the transcontinental railroad all but excluded the Chinese workers who helped build it. As Utah marks the 150th anniversary, their stories are being told. [Editor’s note: As of ...

The transcontinental railroad did not long remain the sole venue of travel through America's center. Lines spiderwebbed outward from its branch points, conveying north and south the settlers ...

After the Transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, every effort was made to eradicate any and all people of Chinese descent from the United States via local and state laws, mob attacks and ...

The Southern Transcontinental Railway. Share full article. Sept. 14, 1870. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 14, 1870, Page 8 Buy Reprints.

Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad” is on view from May 10, 2019, through spring 2020 at the National Museum of American History.

What can the transcontinental railroad teach us about anti-Asian racism? Chinese immigrants helped achieve ‘one of the greatest engineering feats in U.S. history.’ ...