American history classes typically teach that the original transcontinental railroad was a major triumph. What they don‘t say ...

Hill, who built a transportation empire that began with the monumental con­struction of his transcontinental ... Hill and the Great Northern Railway is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

With the completion of its great railroad, America gave birth to a transcontinental culture ... 1900 a number of routes ran parallel — the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific among them ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been ... In 2002, and then every year since 2014, Lee and Leland Wong, the great-grandson of a railroad ...

A bronze plaque identifies it as a re-creation of the “Laurel Tie,” the ceremonial final crossbeam laid in Utah to complete the Transcontinental ... railroad workers on the Great Northern ...

Peru, Brazil and China are moving forward on a transcontinental railway that will cut across the continent, climb the Andes and connect port cities in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The 10bn ...