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 HHS Alumni Association conducted its third annual reunion as guests of Miss Mattie Day. About 30 of the 45 graduates were present and the afternoon was taken up with ...

Compared to the likes of the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Western Pacific Railroad can be considered ... 1931 as WP connected with Great Northern at Bieber, Calif., ...

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 ...

It was eight million square kilometres, which included parts of what are now northern Quebec ... together by his pet project - the great transcontinental railroad. Macdonald won the 1878 election ...

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 ...