Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern will hold Nov. 14 shareholder votes seeking investor approval of their proposed $85 ...

On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, a boisterous crowd gathered to witness the completion of one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: the building of the transcontinental ...

Union Pacific announced a deal to merge with Norfolk Southern, a combination that would create the nation's first coast-to-coast freight railroad. - Brandon Bell/Getty Images Two of the largest US ...

The Smithsonian is marking the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad beginning May 10 with a series of displays, programs, a symposium and online resources that tell new stories and bring ...

Here’s where to enjoy transcontinental railroad art and history for weeks to come in Utah But Utahns can continue to enjoy art, artifacts and more for weeks and even months to come at exhibits around ...

It's something railroad enthusiasts believed they might never see again: one of the biggest steam locomotives ever built in America back on the tracks, rumbling west under its own steam. As Union ...

PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah--On May 10, 1869, the extraordinary happened here. After crews from the Central Pacific Railroad had started in Sacramento, Calif., and laid 690 miles of track to the east, and ...

The centennial of the transcontinental railroad all but excluded the Chinese workers who helped build it. As Utah marks the 150th anniversary, their stories are being told. [Editor’s note: As of May 3 ...

Marking the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, a critical episode in the development of the American West, Hidden Workers focuses on the forgotten Chinese workers ...

Chinese laborers at work with pick and shovel wheelbarrows and one horse dump carts filling in under the long secret town trestle which was originally built in 1865 on the Present Souther Pacific ...