Collis Huntington’s mansion was originally built in 1872 for David Colton, the chief lawyer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Huntington bought it in 1892, but it burned in 1906 and is now the ...

The Central Pacific Railway. Share full article. Nov. 16, 1870. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 16, 1870, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

The United States Commissioners have completed the inspection of the section of the Central Pacific Railroad west of Cisco. They carefully examined the grades, culverts, bridges, , which they ...

In 1869, the founder of the Central Pacific — whose labor force was almost 90 percent Chinese — claimed his men could lay down 10 miles of track in one day. IE 11 is not supported.

Leland Stanford, president of Southern Pacific Railroad and, beginning in 1861, Central Pacific Railroad, drove the golden spike. Stanford also served as a Republican governor and senator from ...

On this day in 1869, workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a golden spike into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah. The event marked completion of the first ...

At Promontory Summit, Utah, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869 after 1,776 miles of track had been laid over six years. Where the Transcontinental ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...