A photo of the Southern Pacific Railroad as it approaches the bridge it constructed to cross the Atchafalaya River. The railroad was preceded the U.S. 10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge as a direct route ...
he asked Curious Louisiana. "Just when was the railroad line built? And when were the tracks removed?" Southern Pacific built the railway, but that's the short answer. "The construction began in ...
In 1988, the Southern Pacific roundhouse area was identified as a cleanup zone. The railroad is now owned by Union Pacific. The roundhouse was flattened shortly after the end of the steam era in ...
Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, ...
It was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad, primarily with Chinese laborers, and construction took a year and a half. When it was opened, the San Fernando Tunnel was the most important single ...
Union Pacific has begun demolition on the former Southern Pacific machine shop in Sparks, a building that predates the city, ...
On a normal run, the Southern Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco train could whisk passengers from Chicago to San Francisco in 40 hours and 15 minutes. But this wasn’t a normal run ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...
Pacific sleeper shark photographed at 3,125 feet depth by the remotely operated vehicle, Deep ... [+] Discoverer. But despite their size and ecological role - and their frequent bycatch in ...
That was just the start. Two decades later, the U.S. government gave the Southern Pacific Railway a right-of-way to build its railroad straight through the Coachella Valley and Cahuilla territory ...
Norfolk Southern has suffered another derailment ... Yet no movement has been made on the bipartisan Railway Safety Act. Among the improvements proposed in the act were safer tank cars ...
The Village of East Palestine and Norfolk Southern have announced a $22 million settlement resolving all of the village’s ...