A Hobbyist’s Death Starts a Race to Save a Railroad
A model railroad club seeks a buyer for the New Jersey house that’s been its home for six decades. The pitch: Inherit 3,500 ...
These 13 women kept SLO’s railroad running during WWII. ‘A man’s job — but I can do it’
The 13 grease-streaked, overall-clad feminine “roundhousers” who work right along with the men in the roundhouse, where ...
The history of some Southern California tunnels and why they were built
The earliest tunnels in Southern California were built for shelter, or mining purposes, but as civilization encroached, the ...
How to get a souvenir brick from historic Sparks railroad building slated for demolition
Union Pacific and the city of Sparks are salvaging bricks from the historic machine shop to be made available to the public.
How Land Reshuffling Made the American West’s Racial Divide
Power in society is tightly linked with the racialized ownership of land, and the privileges that ownership confers, writes ...
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From the Gold Rush to World War II to the rise of Silicon Valley, the Bay Area’s history is rich, varied, often problematic ...
Tired of waiting for painfully slow trains in Richland? What’s being done about it
Traffic on the Highway 240 causeway between George Washington Way and the Richland Y area. Port of Benton’s Southern ...
3 Bay Area local history museums to fascinate you in 2025
From the Gold Rush to World War II to the rise of Silicon Valley, the Bay Area’s history is rich, varied, often problematic ...
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ALL THINGS HISTORICAL: The importance of Texas’ first railroad
When it finally became operational, the BBB and C was the second railroad west of the Mississippi River. It would eventually become a part of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, which was the ...
Critical $100 million railroad bridge opens at Texas-Mexico border
The span that connects Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, is expected to double the number of trains that come across ...
Union Pacific: No Rush To Catch The Next Train
Union Pacific delivers solid Q3 results but limited short-term upside. Find out why UNP stock is a "Hold" with a 1.5% upside ...
Union Pacific maintenance may bring traffic delays, road closures in Montgomery, Harris counties
Union Pacific will conduct the first phase of a railroad tie replacement project in Harris and Montgomery counties this week and next week.