FILE - In this May 10, 1869, file photo, provided by the Union Pacific, railroad officials and employees celebrate the completion of the first railroad transcontinental link in Promontory, Utah. The ...

2019-04-28T13:44:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b36/20190428144520003_hd.jpgOn May 10, 1869, a symbolic final golden spike was driven into a rail, linking ...

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In July 1875, the Rockaway branch of the then-Southern Railroad of Long Island, not far from New York City, had seen two accidents in a little over a week. One was fatal. Executives of the Long Island ...

The location of Vermont’s early railroads helped determine where communities formed. Above, a shunting engine, used to move train cars within a rail yard, sits in the rail yard at Island Pond in 1902.

The May 10, 1869, completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was a pivotal moment in the United States, ushering in a period of progress and expansion nationwide. The presidents of the Union Pacific ...