The rugged geography, dense population, and arid nature of Southern California has created the need for some of the most ...

Southern California is home to a remarkable collection ... It was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad, primarily with Chinese laborers, and construction took a year and a half.

When the spiral’s construction finished in 1876 on the Southern Pacific Line, it was considered one of the railroad world ... like a curling snake over the California chaparral and woodlands ...

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After two days of disruptions, train service interrupted by downed power lines between Los Angeles and the City of Commerce is set to resume. Amtrak is showing that the eastbound Southwest Chief ...

A massive snow-fighting machine has rumbled into the California State Railroad Museum roundhouse for its annual winter visit. The former Southern Pacific rotary — essentially a snowblower on ...

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 ...

Situated at the northern edge of Old Sacramento, the California State ... the museum-operated Sacramento Southern Railroad train, which departs from the Central Pacific Railroad Freight Depot ...