The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...

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Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. By April 1864 the jubilance of groundbreaking had long ago faded into the ether. Chief engineer ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad ... with the engines No. 119 and Jupiter practically touching noses, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific ...