The iconic moment marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and the joining of the East and West coasts. The Central Pacific Jupiter train is seen here on its way to the Last Spike ...

On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in the Utah desert, the blows were heard across the country. Telegraph wires wrapped around spike and sledgehammer transmitted the impact ...

Today, Amtrak's Zephyr train still chugs along much of the ... runs on a different route forged after the original Transcontinental railroad.) It was the greatest engineering enterprise of the ...

Russell's iconic photo shows Central Pacific and Union Pacific trains parked behind a group ... in a way that conveys the transcontinental railroad's significance. That's why the railroad's ...

In the heyday of train travel, first-class dining served ... marking the completion of the country’s first transcontinental railroad (which technically did not run coast-to-coast, but from ...

Every May, tourists gather in Promontory Summit, Utah, to watch two trains meet nose to nose ... Stanford marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad. This 1877 photo depicts Chinese ...

A transcontinental railroad would shrink a dangerous, cross-country wagon-train journey of six months or more to less than a week, and it would open vast stretches of the West to new settlement.

Union Pacific’s Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive will be displayed at baseball’s College World Series, the railroad ...

Some of the route of Amtrak’s California Zephyr line parallels that of the first transcontinental railroad. One of the most beautiful train routes in the United States, Zephyr’s California path alone ...

“It signified the completion of the Transcontinental Railway all ... the North Shore Scenic Railroad will be operating train rides throughout the day — though tickets are selling fast.