The Central Pacific Railway. Share full article. Nov. 16, 1870. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 16, 1870, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

The United States Commissioners have completed the inspection of the section of the Central Pacific Railroad west of Cisco. They carefully examined the grades, culverts, bridges, , which they ...

Collis Huntington’s mansion was originally built in 1872 for David Colton, the chief lawyer for the Central Pacific Railroad. Huntington bought it in 1892, but it burned in 1906 and is now the ...

Detail from a 1908 Highway Department map of Washington showing only the Northern Pacific Railroad connecting towns where US Highway 395 now runs between Pasco and Spokane.

In 1869, the founder of the Central Pacific — whose labor force was almost 90 percent Chinese — claimed his men could lay down 10 miles of track in one day. IE 11 is not supported.

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 ...

Leland Stanford, president of Southern Pacific Railroad and, beginning in 1861, Central Pacific Railroad, drove the golden spike. Stanford also served as a Republican governor and senator from ...

In the 1860s, the railroad came to Niles Canyon. Tracks were laid by Central Pacific Railroad workers through the East Bay hills and along Alameda Creek. “They built it high on the hillside ...

On this day in 1869, workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a golden spike into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah. The event marked completion of the first ...