Already the commercial centre of America, it will then ... of furniture and cabinet work for the use of the railroad offices and buildings along the track. In the forging and casting departments ...

The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...

and the 22-mile route was completed in 1832 becoming the second passenger railroad in America. This railroad began at State Street and Water Street and ran 1500 feet north through the Stockade ...

The railroad industry involved a huge amount of money — and risk. Building tracks where land had not yet been cleared or settled required land grants and loans that only the government could ...