Between 1863 and 1869, the first transcontinental line, known as the Pacific Railroad, was built in the United States. The line ran from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, and carried ...

Roseville, a major West Coast railroad center, underwent a $145 million expansion program in the 1990s after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, according to a history on Union Pacific's website.

Here we go again. For the second time in recent years, two railroad titans are contemplating a marriage that could shake the freight landscape nationally and locally. Union Pacific Railroad and ...

When Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced their merger deal Tuesday to form “America’s first transcontinental railroad,” it puzzled some who recalled the golden spike driven in 1869 at Utah’s ...

A signal that the combined corporation is seen as capable of becoming something much greater than the headline number ...