Southern Pacific acquired a 22-mile railroad from Los Angeles to Wilmington, opened in October, 1869 and construction began during 1873 on lines north and east out of the city.

The Southern Pacific Railroad. Share full article. Dec. 22, 1858. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 22, 1858, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

One of the darkest chapters in the turbulent history of the Southern Pacific railroad in California was the "Mussel Slough Tragedy," which left seven men dead over a land dispute, turned a mild ...

Union Pacific, one of the major freight railroads that successfully fought off union demands for paid sick days for workers during contentious labor negotiations in 2022, reported another year of ...

Federal regulators approve merger of Canadian Pacific & Kansas City Southern 01:57. CHICAGO (CBS) --Federal regulators have approved the first major railroad merger in more than 20 years, signing ...

That access was achieved last November, when Southern Pacific`s parent company, Rio Grande Industries Inc., bought a 282-mile line between St. Louis and Chicago from the Chicago, Missouri ...

This map is part of a series In March 2017, 25-year-old David O’Sullivan came from Ireland to Southern California, intending to hike the Pacific Crest Trail 2,650 miles to Washington. Two weeks ...

Now that most of the red tape in connection with the new station of the Southern Pacific in the Terracina section, near the old winery, has been untangled, work is going ahead as rapidly as ...

A postcard shows a Northwestern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive at the station in Santa Rosa in 1911. Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" used stock footage shot from an NWP passenger train.

Canadian Pacific officials aggressively defended their planned $25 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, announced in March, during a conference call April 21 regarding first-quarter earnings.