The Southern Pacific Railroad acquired all of the necessary ... The downtown train depot is now home to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum. "With a distance of 55 miles, the line was termed ...

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Federal regulators have approved the $31 billion merger of Kansas City Southern railroad with Canadian Pacific. The new railroad, to be named Canadian Pacific Kansas City, will become the first ...

A historic machine shop built in 1904 by Southern Pacific Railroad as part of its railyard operations will be torn down, according to the city of Sparks. The massive brick structure on Nugget ...

A federal board on Wednesday approved a Canadian Pacific Railway merger with Kansas City Southern, creating a freight rail system linking North America. The deal is the nation’s first major rail ...

Time is running out for those hoping to take home a piece of Sparks railroad history. The final batch of salvaged bricks from the historic Southern Pacific Railroad machine shop will be delivered ...

The bar for railroad mergers in the U.S. was raised substantially at the start of the century after a disastrous combination of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific in 1996 that snarled rail traffic ...