I am a graduate of Napa High, class of '59, and Napa County has been a part of my family history for years. My father started working for the SP Railroad in 1916, and was the SP signal maintainer for ...
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 ...
SANDERSON — With Chinese crews laying track from the west and mostly Irish working from the east, the two rail gangs met about 50 miles east of here in 1883, with a silver spike marking completion of ...