More than 1,500 laborers, at least 1,000 of whom were Chinese, under the direction of former Central Pacific Railroad worker ...

Alan Dillon, Ireland’s Enterprise, Trade and Employment minister joined the St Patrick’s Day parade in Salt Lake City (Utah) ...

Shortly after the transcontinental railroad was completed in Utah ... that the west side of the tracks became "less desirable and often used as a dumping ground for waste." The side had always ...

All Burlington Northern locomotives present here at Dilworth, Minn., the former NP facility serving Fargo-Moorhead, on May 14 ...

The highest torque diesel engines ever made have turned up in everything from small commercial vehicles to powerful ...

US-based infrastructure company Granite has successfully completed the BNSF Needles Third Main Track Project in ... efficiency on the Southern Transcontinental Railroad was a huge success that ...

Republicans enacted the Pacific Railroad Act ... and twenty million acres and 35,000 track miles later came the realization of a long-deferred dream: a transcontinental rail system that opened ...

Editor’s note: Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said that Pierre Berton’s history of the transcontinental railroad was written in three volumes. This version has ...

US-based infrastructure company Granite has successfully completed the BNSF Needles Third Main Track Project in California ... that enhanced rail efficiency on the Southern Transcontinental Railroad ...

Shortly after the transcontinental railroad was completed in Utah ... City officials pointed out, in a description of the study, that the west side of the tracks became "less desirable and often used ...