The railroad was America's first technology corridor ... America gave birth to a transcontinental culture. And the route further engendered another profound change in the American mind.

Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental ... the Platte River route. At Omaha, on June 8, he issued general orders stating that the Union Pacific Railroad shall be so ...

“If one argues that history is sort of a prism—that you look at the past in order to understand the present and the future—go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored both at the NY municipal and state levels, thanks to a resolution that Assemblymember William ...