Those who reach 100 years old are fortunate ... working for several decades in the railroad industry until his retirement in 1987. "Raising my children, that was my greatest achievement, and ...

The Old Fort Loops will be repaired ... died in the construction of the railroad through the loops. The untrained workers blew through mountains with nitroglycerin to create the five tunnels connected ...

Months after preparing to strike, train workers unions are blaming US railroad companies' labor practices for the disaster in Ohio — and say without change, it's only a matter of time before ...

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that ... and put fear into the hearts of railroad workers, although it occurred away from ...

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 ...

Located in McDowell County, the historic set of railroad tracks known as the Old Fort Loops have long ... An estimated 139 workers died during the nearly four-year construction of the 1,823 ...