On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in ... The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage.

150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory photograph taken after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, two mighty locomotives ...

In early 1869, San Francisco was the capital of an isolated ... He likes to talk about the Transcontinental Railroad’s transformational role in American history and says visitors to Golden Spike tend ...

A bronze plaque identifies it as a re-creation of the “Laurel Tie,” the ceremonial final crossbeam laid in Utah to complete the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. That original beam of laurel ...

3. Denise Khor, “Railroad Frames: Landscapes and the Chinese Railroad Worker in Photography, 1865–1869,” in The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad, ed. Gordon Chang and ...

Between 1869-1894, five transcontinental railroads ... racing to meet the Union Pacific and complete the first transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials drive the ...

At Promontory Summit, Utah, in 2014, photographer Corky Lee gathered the descendants of Chinese immigrants who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad from 1865 to 1869. It wasn’t the first time ...

William & Mary's Center for Student Diversity celebrates AAPI Heritage Month throughout the month of May, but provides ...

The Southern route came through our area, and ultimately became the best all-around prospect for a transcontinental railroad. Lt. R. S. Williamson led portions of the southern survey, aided by Lt.