Chinese laborers at work with pick and shovel wheelbarrows and one horse dump carts filling in under the long secret town trestle ... no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...

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 ...

American history classes typically teach that the original transcontinental railroad was a major triumph. What they don‘t say ...

Hell on Wheels may not be as well-known as other AMC shows, but the well-crafted, history-based Western will appeal to fans of 1923.

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 ...

Nearly 150 years after the Golden Spike in Promontory Summit, Utah, completed this nation’s first transcontinental railroad ... This quiet New Mexico desert town has been transformed into ...

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 ...