Returning home, he informed his wife, "Anna, I am going to California to be the pioneering ... had built the Sacramento Valley Line, the first railroad west of the Missouri River.

Photo from Solano County District Attorney’s Office The morning of Nov. 16, 1982, a railroad worker riding the rails made a discovery that would rattle a California community for decades.

Unlucky at first ... the seven wonders of the railroad world.” However, the locomotive sensation was not without tragedy. One ...

The Gold Rush and the completion of the transcontinental railroad, natural beauties ... explorer, and one of California’s first U.S. senators after statehood] wrote a memoir, and though it ...