On October 11, 1923, three brothers tried to rob a Southern Pacific train as it made its way over the Siskiyou Summit of Southern Oregon. Before it was all over four men would be dead, and three ...

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 ...

And for well more than half a century, that railroad, the feared Southern Pacific, was California's dominant monopoly, able to shift business and government policies seemingly at will. Reformers ...