Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, ...

The trains don't stop at Union Pacific Depot anymore ... depicting the completion of the Transcontinental railroad in 1869). The former station is one of the oldest and most prominent buildings ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

Grant’s first term, 1869-73. His first Minnesota visit ... what looked like taking a bribe from Credit Mobilier, the Union Pacific Railroad’s construction arm, effectively ended Colfax ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the dangerous workplaces.

He helped sway the Union Pacific to make Omaha its eastern terminus and had the wherewithal to own the railroad but didn ... Lucretia (1869-1870). Upon Lucretia’s death, her inconsolable ...

Kottinger, Juan Pablo’s son-in-law, who in 1864 would christen the town as Pleasanton after U.S. Civil War Union Maj ... time was called the Western Pacific Railroad finished its construction through ...

Woodburn is asking Union Pacific Railroad to voluntarily make changes, including reducing train speed, to improve safety after a recent fatality.

When suffragette Susan B. Anthony boarded the passenger car of the Union Pacific Railroad in Ogden, Utah, in late December ...