Anyone attending the Durham Museum south of Omaha’s Old Market will be near the one-mile marker for the Union Pacific ...

On the morning of June 30, localities across the country simultaneously held ceremonies to announce resolutions and decisions ...

Without the Transcontinental Railroad and Union Pacific, Omaha — and Council Bluffs — might be a shell of what they are today.

While the movement to identify and map a state’s topography, geology, and economic resources began in the South in the 1820s, Edward Hitchcock and James Hall provided models of what could be ...

Henry T. Williams' map was printed 8 years after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The original railroad names hundreds of stops along the tracks noting major and minor stations by font ...

The hotel's bar, No. 119, is a reference to the Union Pacific train engine that met with Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter for the "Wedding of the Rails" ceremony at Promontory Summit in 1869.

After the Central Washington Railway was built in 1889, the depot was named for railroad construction engineer R. B. Govan.

At that time, Central Pacific Railroad president Leland Stanford ceremonially drove in the railroad’s last “Golden Spike” at Promontory Summit in Utah. Yet in the years following the transcontinental ...

The Central Pacific Railroad later merged with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Southern Pacific put their vast landholdings up for sale in the early 1980s. The owners of Sierra Pacific ...

This Moffat Tunnel lease, that does seem like our opportunity to make the railroad talk to us. What is it, God and then the railroads as far as who runs things?” The state of Colorado owns the ...