The planned 2,800 miles of rail line would stretch from Ilhéus, Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, through the Amazon and the ...

In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by mule-drawn express mail coach, in the days before the railroad, and compares it to a newspaper article from the ...

The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route ...

That law authorized the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, which would connect the eastern United States to the pacific coast.

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The Lake Superior Railroad Museum will celebrate National Train Day on Saturday, May 10 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Four days later on May 14, he will introduce a resolution recognizing the achievements of the Chinese-American railroad workers, many of whose descendants live in Brooklyn today.

Summary "Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of Cheyennes, Lakotas, and Pawnees, and from the vantage of Chinese migrants who toiled on ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored both at the NY municipal and state levels, thanks to a resolution that Assemblymember William ...