The planned 2,800 miles of rail line would stretch from Ilhéus, Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, through the Amazon and the ...

“The construction of the Transcontinental (Railroad) was the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century, and I’m very proud to have been a part of it,” Dodge said.

Today is Saturday, May 10, the 130th day of 2025. There are 235 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven in a ceremony in Promontory, Utah, marking the ...

Chinese immigrants helped achieve ‘one of the greatest engineering feats in U.S. history.’ But their sacrifices are seldom remembered.

A CELEBRATION NEXT WEEK TO HONOR Chinese-American railroad workers gets a preview in Bensonhurst.

The Summit Tunnel Conservation Association (STCA) is pleased to announce that on December 13, 2024, Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, designated the 1867-68 encampment area of the ...

A memorial to the Chinese immigrants who worked to build the transcontinental railroad is set to be placed on the southeast lawn of the Utah State Capitol. State Sen. Karen Kwan, the first Chinese ...

A 43-foot-tall Golden Spike arrived to Utah and honors tens of thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad.

It's not something you see every day, a 43-foot-tall golden railroad spike rolling into Iowa.

The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 brought about the first transcontinental railroad. Check out the photographs and illustrations that depict what it was like to work on the railroad at the time. The ...

On May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed after nearly six years of construction, making travel and trade between the east and west coast easier than ever before. Take a lo… ...