Telegraph wires wrapped around spike and sledgehammer transmitted the impact instantaneously east and west. In San Francisco ...

America’s first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, born of the Pacific Railway Act that President Abraham Lincoln signed into law seven years earlier. It was meant to knit the country ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

For decades, a patchwork of regional rail networks across the United States have been forced to grapple with the same headache: Interchanges, where cargo is handed from one rail line to another.

OMAHA, Nebraska & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) and Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today filed an application with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) ...

Plate 227, "East and West shaking hands at laying of the last rail," Promontory Summit, Utah. Photograph was taken by Andrew Russell on May 10, 1869. General Dodge, chief engineer for Union Pacific, ...

1825 In England, George Stephenson engineers the world's first railway locomotive. Based on Stephenson's years of ...

January 8 marks 163 years since crews broke ground on the First Transcontinental Railroad. “It was a tremendous undertaking,” said Ty Smith with the California State Railroad Museum. “In fact, when ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, potentially triggering a final wave of rail ...

A new agreement between two railroad giants, Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation, will create America’s first transcontinental railroad, to be called the Union Pacific ...

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Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern have filed an historic application to create the nation's first transcontinental railroad. For more information, visit AmericasGreatConnection.com. The ...