For the latter half of the 19th century and up through WWI, there was tremendous growth in the railroad sector, and lanterns ...

On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in ... The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage.

150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory photograph taken after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, two mighty locomotives ...

Between 1869-1894, five transcontinental railroads ... racing to meet the Union Pacific and complete the first transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials drive the ...