AmeriStarRail, a startup specializing in high-speed and intermodal passenger rail, pitched a partnership with Amtrak to ...

Detailed price information for Union Pacific Corp (UNP-N) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

Although we take it for granted, one of Vancouver’s greatest advantages is that it lies at the end of a transcontinental railroad. The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway was completed in 1908 ...

Although a rail line between Nevada City/Grass Valley and Auburn had been discussed since the 1850s, there was never enough money for construction. In 1874, however –– following completion of the ...

The first Transcontinental Railroad was finished officially in 1869, and it connected the western and eastern United States. Joseph Luo from Brooklyn can trace his family back five generations to ...

State Assembly holds events marking Chinese-American work on the Transcontinental Railroad May 8, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff Share this: Facebook Twitter Reddit Flipboard Email Share ...

Council Member Susan Zhuang on Tuesday introduced a City Council resolution that would, for the first time, recognize the history of Chinese-American railroad workers in New York City. Surrounded by ...

While the government finished the eastern half of the railroad in 1913, the western half was never completed, meaning this transcontinental railroad ended in Winnipeg, coming up 1,800 kilometres ...

Ceremonial spikes have ever since been a popular method for marking significant moments in railroad construction. Sterling silver spikes were used in 1883 for the second transcontinental railroad ...

Archivist Benjamin Jenkins has written about the railroad’s impact on what we eat in his book, Octopus’s Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California. “The first entire railroad ...

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.

Silkroad’s newest album, American Railroad, and the ensemble’s upcoming concert, honor the thousands of Chinese immigrants and other workers of color who toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad but ...