Looking to derail from your usual Santa Clarita routine? Consider a trip to Sacramento for a journey through California’s ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

The United States Commissioners have completed the inspection of the section of the Central Pacific Railroad west of Cisco. They carefully examined the grades, culverts, bridges, , which they ...

The Central Pacific Jupiter train is seen here on its way to the Last Spike Ceremony carrying Leland Stanford, one of the “Big Four” owners of the Central Pacific railroad on May 10, 1869.

The so-called “Big Four” railroad tycoons behind this western construction — the Central Pacific Railroad — are also well-known. But some of this history can get overlooked, like how the railroad — ...

was forwarded from here to-day to the end of the Central Pacific Railroad. It is the last tie, and will be laid by LELAND STANFORD on Saturday next, thus completing the Pacific Railroad.

The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 was enacted by President Abraham Lincoln to garner federal support for construction of the transcontinental railroad. While B&O Railroad was the first commercial ...

After around six years of construction, the iconic meeting of the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, Nebraska caused quite the fanfare when the two ...

A small paraffine lamp was then placed with its flame nearly touching the rod, and at about a yard from the central thread. Upon bringing the eye along the other end of the rod, and watching the ...

Under the federal Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, the Union Pacific Railroad built the eastern section of the Transcontinental Railroad, while the Central Pacific Railroad was in charge of the western ...