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 ...

Residents from California and Utah on Sunday hiked 10 miles of the first transcontinental railroad that was built on April 28, 1869, to commemorate the record-breaking feat of the workers.

• “Working on the Railroad: Chinese Workers and America’s First Transcontinental Line,” Wednesday, May 8, 7 p.m. — Drawing on years of research, Gordon Chang — the Olive H. Palmer ...

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.

Instead, in the 1860s, teams of Chinese labourers blasted through the granite and painstakingly hand-chiselled 15 shafts through the Sierra Nevada so that the first transcontinental railroad could ...

E.H. Harriman, born in 1848, rose from a Wall Street message boy at age 14, to become one of the most influential railroad tycoons of the late 19th century. Harriman owned a seat on the New York ...

An exhibit commemorating one of the most significant developments in the settlement of the West and Chinese Americans’ contributions to it is on display this week on the porch of longtime Palo ...

One day later, the first transcontinental freight train rumbled out of California on its way to the east coast. It carried in its hold an emissary of the Asian markets: a shipment of Japanese teas.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A 43-foot-tall Golden Spike that was brought to Utah on Monday will honor tens of thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad. The nearly 8,000-pound ...

Visionary executive William Barstow Strong led the second transcontinental line, the Santa Fe, in the 1880s, paving the way for thousands of miles of track. Illustration by Matthew Richardson When ...

The dream of a single, continuous railroad that would unite America’s east and west coasts dates back to the 1830s, not long after the introduction of the country’s first steam locomotive.