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 ...

Govia Thameslink Railway has launched its additional fleet of Class 379 Electrostars to support its services on the Great ...

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...