Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 1885 construction crew builds a train crossing above the Green River in the Cascade Mountains, Washington. In 1804, a British ...

This week marks 163 years since Cruz first broke ground on the first transcontinental railroad, and it all started here in what's now old Sacramento. And joining us this morning, we have Ty Smith from ...

The first railroad in the U.S., built in 1827, was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which connected Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills (now known as Ellicott City), Maryland. But the country's oldest ...