The Arizona Eastern Railroad has a long tradition of serving Arizona’s mining and agricultural community. It was incorporated in 1904 by the Southern Pacific in response to the arrival of Frank ...

At the time, Southern Pacific Railroad was the largest landowner in California, a railroad official served on the state Supreme Court, and the railroad had found ways to stack political committees ...

The 2025 Silver Spike Railroad Jubilee is a celebration of Tucson’s diverse culture, honoring the legacy of our influential figures and the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) will deploy women police personnel to guard the ladies’ compartments in almost all the trains running across the Southern Railway. The GRP is jointly working ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A key piece of Sparks' railroad history is set to disappear, but Nevadans can get a piece of that history. A machine shop built in 1904 by Southern Pacific Railroad — one of the last pieces of ...

When it finally became operational, the BBB and C was the second railroad west of the Mississippi River. It would eventually become a part of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, which was the ...