January 20: President Abraham Lincoln asks Massachusetts senator Oakes Ames to help manage the Union Pacific Railroad. Ames soon invests in Crédit Mobilier and promotes its interests in ...

At CSX, the Sarnia Mechanical Shop in Ontario marks a milestone, and the Class I ranks as a top employer by CAREERS & the ...

Also, Union Pacific (UP) announces the roll-out date for its commemorative locomotive paying tribute to America’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad ... of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession ...

He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union and ending slavery ... left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American ...

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Union Pacific Railroad, the principal operating company ... Union Pacific was established by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 and has been building America for over 160 years.

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from ...