Hailed as the “Lady Engineer” who “took the pain out of the train,” Olive Wetzel Dennis made her lasting mark on passenger ...

The Great American Rail-Trail will cross the entire country when completed, but one of the most epic sections has already ...

“The paint scheme has the unique colors of Lincoln’s era and serves as a nod to locomotive No. 119, one of the two locomotives present at Promontory Summit, Utah, marking the completion of the first ...

marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, officially uniting the eastern and western parts of the nation. This year marks Lincoln’s 216 th birthday and the locomotive will ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or ...

Elon Musk, POTUS 47’s First Pal and sometimes favorite Elmo when not mistaken for the real POTUS, suggested March 5 that ...

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He taught himself the art of photography and started to document ... the iconic 1869 photograph of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad that excluded Chinese workers.

Where are the sort of big-picture, grandiose and ambitious project proposals that helped build the west in the first place ... From the Transcontinental Railroad to Dwight Eisenhower’s ...

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have played key roles in U.S. history, from Chinese laborers who helped build the country’s first transcontinental railroad to Japanese Americans ...

Canada faces tariffs from our closest ally and largest trading partner. We must boost industries, attract talent and build ...