10 must-visit historic railroad towns will involve a journey through railroading’s past and present in these iconic ...
January 7: Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux raiders ravage the would-be railroad town of Julesburg, Colorado, in retaliation for Sand Creek. They destroy telegraph wire in Platte Valley, then return ...
The arrival of the railroad and, with it ... Retribution fell 39 days later upon the frontier town of Julesburg, Colorado. An assembly of 1,000 Sioux, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne — survivors ...
Elko is a small town in the northeastern corner of Nevada, between Reno and Salt Lake City. It began in 1869 during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Elko eventually became ...
Ticket-holders for the sold-out, one-way trip will travel along the original route of the transcontinental railroad in dome ... in the historic Placer County town, along the tracks at Atlantic ...
In the show, the town is portrayed as a settlement in which tents far outnumber about a half-dozen wooden buildings representing the farthest point then reached by the transcontinental railroad ...
The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...